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Sometimes the simplest origin is the most fitting, and nowhere is this more apparent than in how Noah Lennox took the stage name Panda Bear for his solo work. An avid artist for most of his life, Lennox drew pictures of pandas on the covers of all his solo work as their artwork and sure enough, that became his stage name. Now I might just be reading far too much into this, but I think this makes a lot of sense. After all, Lennox’s music as Panda Bear is accessible to most fans of forward thinking pop music, just like how most people would be drawn to a record whose cover was a hand drawn picture of a panda.
However, when you take into account the fact that the image itself is also the name of the artist and the record, we get into the experimental territory that his music also occupies. Which is to be expected coming from an artist who counts Aphex Twin as one of his key influences. In fact, Richard James was one of the artists that got Lennox into electronic music while in his teenage years. He was so inspired by it that by the age of 20 he’ recorded his first full length album as Panda Bear. Along with his childhood friend and Animal Collective bandmate Deakin (A.K.A Josh Dibb), he created his own label, Soccer Star Records, to release that very record, and began a long and artistically fruitful career with it.
Since then, Lennox has been very successfully able to juggle his solo work with his growing fortunes in Animal Collective. Five albums later he’s arguably just as respected for his solo work than anything he’s done in AC, even catching the ear of Jeff Magnum, who asked him to perform at the 2011 All Tomorrow’s Parties festival the Neutral Milk Hotel mainman was curating. Lennox sits at an enviable position, critical acclaim, a dedicated fanbase, a succesful band and a solo project that can equal anything his main act does. It’d be infuriating if it wasn’t so good. Highly recommended.
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Panda Bear is a very talented American musician. He performs music in several genres such as Experimental, psychedelic pop, electronic, dub, and ambient. His music has something for everyone.
The venue for his concert was an outdoor one. The weather was great and there was a great energy in the crowd. A clear night sky overhead filled with stars only added to the ambience of the show. Panda Bear arrived wearing a great t-shirt and black jeans. He looked casual and relaxed. He seemed very much in control on stage.
The crowd response was really positive and Panda Bear seemed to love that very much. The stage looked great as well, simple yet beautiful. Panda Bear performed a lovely set of songs, such as "I'm Not/Comfy in Nautica", "Take Pills", "You Can Count on Me", and "Last Night at the Jetty".
Each song was awesome and I really enjoyed them all. My favorite of the night turned out to be "You Can Count on Me". That song really resonated with me and stuck with me the whole evening. I am so glad I went to that show. I would love to go to another live show of Panda Bear's again one day soon.
Noah Benjamin Lennox, better known by his stage persona of Panda Bear is one of the most creatively visual performers currently working. A co-founding member of Animal Collection, Noah is considered a deity in the indie world as both his solo work and his work with Animal Collection is celebrated for its experimentation and ability to push boundaries.
The musician has been touring with both outfits for close on twenty years now and his abilities to also push live boundaries is applaudable. His crowd wait in hushed anticipation as an ominous strobe begins to spin and Lennox steps onstage to begin 'You Can Count On Me'. The backdrop feels almost living as it adapts and changes to the tracks played, it glows ominously during 'Surfers Hymn' to add to the trippy and unpredictable nature of the song.
It goes completely grey during a chilling performance of 'Tropic Of Cancer' where Noah allows the lyrics and vocal to be the real attention grabber. He says a big thank you as he leaves the stage having twisted the audience's minds in a manner he deemed suitable.
sean-ward
The music was great......but for the first hour I thought the sound team had forgotten to turn the volume up! You could hear the bass but could barely hear his voice or the tunes. Last half hour they seemed to sort it out - maybe it was intentional? But was mildly disappointed that I could hear ALL the conversations around me for the duration of the show!
suzbalchin
Panda Bear was ridic, such amazing trippy visuals and good live rendition of his tracks with a little bit of jamming and changing things up. A+ would watch again. Way better than Animal Collective that time
william-boxhall
He played lots of new stuff and no hits we knew. This wouldn’t bother me normally but I didn’t recognise even one song. Would maybe not go in the future.
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