2. Personal Life
Tags: Early Life Maryland School Choir Short Films Fish Sticks Fecal Matters Appy Halloween Drawing Pandas
Tags: Lisbon Portugal Tour 2003 Pernanda Pereira Fashion Designer Daughter Nadja Son 2007 Sweatshirts 2nd Things
Quotes:
"Since I got off the airplane here [for the first time] I
had a good feeling about this place.”- Noah Lennox
"connected to the European way of life”- Noah Lennox
"slow moving kind of person”- Noah Lennox
"slow moving kind of place”- Noah Lennox
Birth name: Noah Benjamin Lennox
Born: July 17 1978 (age 36)
Baltimore, Maryland US
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3. About his career and music
Occipation(s): Musician, songwriter
Genres: Experimental, neo-psychedelia, electronic
Instruments: Vocals, drums, sampler, synthesizer, guitar, piano
Years active: 1998-present
Labels: Paw Tracks, FatCat Records, Domino Records, Catsup Plate, St.
Ives, UAAR, Soccer Star, Outside Music (Canada)
Associated acts: Animal Collective, Jane
Website: PBVSGR
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Tags: Animal Collective Teenager Electronic Music House Techno Aphex Twin Josh Dibb Deakin Avey Tare Dave David Portner
Geologist Brian Weits Person Pitch Strawberry Jam Samplers Black Dice First Tour Stewart Copeland Drumming
Quote :
"Black Dice took us on our first tour and I feel like
the wisest things I’ve learned about being in a
band I learned by watching them."[7] and that he
looks to Black Dice "as a model for a band. [...] I
feel like as a band, I can't speak for the other guys
[of Animal Collective], but certainly for myself, like I
modeled the way I approach to everything with the
band watching the way Black Dice did it.”- Noah
Lennox
4. Tags: Panda Bear 1998 Soccer Star Records Young Prayer 2004 Person Pitch 2007 Tomboy 2011 2008 No Age Miami Paw
Tracks Comfy In Nautica ABC Global Warming Movie Earth 2100 2014 Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper Mr Noah EP
"I get impatient writing songs, I can't spend more than a couple of hours before I get frustrated. So I got to kind of spit it out
real fast. My favorite songs are the ones where I worked really really fast on, when it comes all out in like two hours or
something.”- Noah Lennox
Quote:
Tags: Musical Equipment Sampler Synthesizer
5. Tags: Discography Albums EPs Singles Remixes Appearances Solo Jane Animal Collective
Discography
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g/wiki/Panda_Bear_(
musician)
6. Released: June 1 1999
Recorded: mid 1990s to 1998
Genre: Electronic, Indie music, lo-fi, experimental
Length: 53:37
Label: Soccer Star Records
Producer: Panda Bear, Deakin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_Bear_(album)
Panda Bear
Quote:
“I kind of feel like I didn’t even have a concept of what an album was back then, for the first one, when I was 15, 16, 17, 18
or so. I just put songs together that I liked at the time.”- Noah Lennox
Tags: First Solo 20 Soccer Star Records Deakin Panda Bear 1998
7. Young Prayer
Released: September 28, 2004
Genre: Experimental, folk, ambient
Length: 27:58
Label: Paw Tracks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Prayer
Tags: Young Prayer Pitchfork Best new
Music Death Father Animal Collective
Deakin Rusty Santos
Quotes:
“It was more a gift to my father when
he was sick and I wanted to make him
happy if I could and I wanted to cheer
him up and I wanted to tell him that
he’d done really great in his time. I was
pretty fucked up but I wanted to keep
going and I wanted to have strength
and I suppose that comes out in the
recording. I wouldn’t say it was
therapeutic though, at least I never
thought of it that way.”- Noah Lennox
“[...] he [his father] did get to hear the
roughs of the album’s songs, if not the
finished version. That was recorded in
the room he actually died in, so it was
especially intense. With Young Prayer, I
wanted to tell him that he had taught
me really well. I wanted to be like, ‘It’s
been really good hanging out and
learning from you, you’ve been a really
good man and set a good example’.”-
Noah Lennox
8. Person Pitch
Released: March 20, 2007
Genre: Experimental, psychedelic pop, electronic
Length: 45:36
Label: Paw Tracks
Producer: Panda Bear
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_Pitch
Tags: Person Pitch Pitchfork Top Album 2007 Tiny Mix Tapes Bros Simon Reynolds Bradford Cox The Tough Alliabce Diplo St.
Vincent Black Dice Christopher Bear Grizzly Bear Vampire Weekend Yeasayer Dan Smith Caribou
9. Tomboy
Released: April 12, 2011
Genre: Experimental, electronic, dream pop, indie rock
Length: 49:59
Label: Paw Tracks
Producer: Panda Bear, Sonic Boom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomboy_(album)
Tags: Tomboy Person Pitch Merriweather Post Pavillion Nirvana The White Stripes
Quotes:
"I got tired of the severe parameters of using samplers. Thinking about Nirvana and The White Stripes got me into the idea
of doing something with a heavy focus on guitar and rhythm.”- Noah Lennox
10. Reviews
Tags: Father Death Sung Tongs Campfire Songs
Tags: Song Titles Young Prayer Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
Tags: Song Structure Young Prayer Gregorian Chant Reich Stereolab’s Blue Milk
Summery: In this Pitchfork article Mark Richardson gives a review and discusses the second album by Panda Bear called
Young Prayer. He discusses the influences, the song structure and sound and compares the album with two Animal
Collective albums Sung Tongs and Campfire songs.
Young Prayer-
Allmusic: 3.5 stars
Pitchfork Media- 8.5/10
Panda Bear-
Pitchfork Media: 6.5/10
Release Magazine: 6/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P
anda_Bear_(album)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Pr
ayer
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/614
1-young-prayer/
11. Quote:
Tags: Quote Father Cancer Young Prayer 2005
Person Pitch-
Allmusic: 4.5 stars
The A.V Club: A-
BBC Collective: 4.5 stars
Entertainment Weekly: A-
The Guardian: 4 stars
The Observer: 5 stars
Paste: 4 stars
Rolling Stone: 3.5 stars
Pitchfork Media: 9.4/10
Tiny Mix Tapes: 4.5 stars
Tags: Person Pitch Artists Basic Channel Luomo Dettinger Wolfgang Voigt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_Pitch
Tags: Dance Music Structure Repetition
- Noah Lennox
http://pitchfork.com/reviews
/albums/10025-person-pitch/
12. Tags: Beach Boys Brian Wilson
Tags: Brian Wilson Sampling
Summery- Mark Richardson talks about 2007 album Person Pitch. He talks a lot about Noah’s influences, which are also
stated in a booklet with his album. He talks about the sound of the album, comparing it to Brain Wilson and The Beach Boys
music, some songs of which he samples in the album.
13. Tomboy-
Allmusic: 4 stars
A.V. Club: A-
Pitchfork Media: 8.5/10
Spin: 8/10 stars
Toro: 4.5 stars
Uncut: 4 stars
The Guardian: 4 stars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomboy_(album)
Tags: Arthur Russell Brian Wilson
Tags: Pete Kember Sonic Boom Spectrum Spacemen 3 Beach Boys The Velvet Underground
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/alb
ums/15299-tomboy/
14. Tags: Person Pitch Spacemen 3
Quote:
Tags: Time Producing Thinking Sound Interview Tomboy
Tags: Dub Echo Jamaican Psychedelia King Tubby Lee Perry
Summery- Jess Harvell discusses influences of the album Tomboy. She talks about Noah working with Peter Kember a.k.a
Sonic Boom. She also talks about the sound of the album.
15. Anthony Fantano on the Mr Noah EP –
“It’s a pretty great start. The song features a driving beat, its kinda lo-fi in its recording, its
layered, its trippy, its colourful, if I’m not mistaken Panda Bear incorporates a sample of dogs
whimpering. Throughout this track its very apparent that guys like Brian Wilson still inform
Panda Bears vocal style heavily, and I love that descending vocal line he keeps using on his track
(Anthony sings it). However Panda Bears vocal performances are just about as off point as my
vocal performance just then. He just doesn’t seem to be as in tune as on some parts of this song
as he typically does in an Animal Collective track. I don’t know if he’s writing himself out of his
range, maybe he’s straining a little bit. There’s some points where he’s a little over register or he
just sounds slightly goofy, but instrumentally and melodically I still like this tune. I think it has a
lot of personality to it. Unlike Centipede Hz I feel like this track is an onion and I guess I’m sort of
enjoying peeling those layers back. But sometimes this cacophony can feel a little unnecessary,
sort of like on the next track. The song Faces In The Crowd which has these swirling, cycling
synthesizers that a lot of the time I feel like are distracting away from what is just an alright
song. However with the very reverbed, icey melodies all over this track I do care a lot for the
very blissful tone of this track. Then we get the song Untying The Knot which I think
instrumentally is one of the most interesting tracks on the entire record. We kick this song off
with like some weird samples if I am correct which are incorporated throughout the track and
sound very wonderful. Then we get the layered very repetitive vocals throughout this track
which read a lot like a chant to me, and with the primal beat backing on all of it it feels very
hypnotic and meditative. And a lot like this track I find the closer to be pretty pleasant too.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7xmVw419fs
19. Tags:
Chillwave
Person
Pitch Ariel
Pink
Tags: Strange
Animal
Collective Ariel
Pink Digital Era
Summery: In this interview with Noah
Lennox, they discuss his album Tomboy,
compared with Person Pitch and Young
Prayer. They talk about his children, and
what they thing of his music and the new
album. They also talk about how Noah feels
about Ariel Pink and his music. The final
question they talk about how the digital era
has perhaps made people more
adventurous with music.
24. Tags: David Byrne Brian Eno Pete
Kember Kids Collective Intellectual
25. Tags: Monty
Python The Holy
Grail Instincts
Knowledge
Emotion Nature
Music Chocolate
Summery: Panda bear is interviewed for Electronic Beats. They cover a number of topics, such
as live shows, collaborations outside of Animal Collective, influences and how technology has
affected his work.
26. Tags: New Tracks Person
Pitch Tomboy Samples
Break-Centric Animal
Collective Merriweather Post
Pavilion
http://www.undertheradarmag.com/intervi
ews/in_the_studio_panda_bear_on_his_ne
xt_album_grim_reaper/
27. Tags: Tomboy Pete Kember Sonic
Boom Spacemen 3 Collaboration
Lyrics Growth Children Creative
Process 2014
28. Tags: Favorite Songs J. Dilla Donuts
Dave Portner Animal Collective Avey
Tare Pigloo Le Papa Pingouin Kid
Youtube Dexter’s Laboratory Pocoyo
Patinho Duck Bebe Lily Crazy Frog Le
Petit Fleur Ilona Mitrecey Excepter
Rockstepper
http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/6544-panda-
bear/
29. Tags: Favorite Older Songs Fnac
Wham! Everything She Wants
George Michael Patience Amazing
The Zombies Leave Me Be The
Police Wrapped Around Your
Finger Voices Inside My Head
31. Tags: Radio 1993 Philadelphia
Football Baseball Hockey
Basketball WIP Dutch Polish
Boarding School Daft Punk
Coachella
32. Tags: Music Equipment Boss
SP-303 Dr. Sample Madlib The
Unseen Favorite Record Store
Other Music New York
33.
34. Tags: Favorite Venue The
Mercury Lounge New
York Animal Collective
Herbert The Strokes
VoxHall Aarhus Newtown
Sydney
35. Tags: Radio A Prairie Home Companion PRI Ringtone Old Telephone
Summery: Pitchfork asks Noah Lennox about his different favorites. Such as favorite current/
past songs, venues and music equipment.
36. Tags: Coup De Main Animal Collective
ODDSAC Film Sundance Film Festival
African Music White Audience Drinking
Culture Drug-taking Drugs Higher
Experience
http://www.coupdemainmagazine.com/interviews/animal-
collectives-panda-bear-personal-pitch
37. Tags: Young Prayer 2004 Father Cancer Songs
New Meaning Panda Bear Animal Collective
Bedroom Recording Cello Piano Tenor Choir
Boston University Major Religion
38. Tags: Drums Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion Strawberry Jam Feels Tour
Summery: Coup De Main talks with Noah, covering many different things to do with Animal
Collective and himself. The talk about Animal Collectives film ODDSAC, drugs, the theme of the
album Young Prayer and how Noah feels about sharing such personal thoughts, and having his
audience change the song meanings. They also discuss his time at University studying Religion,
and what’s next for Animal Collective.
39. 01 – Animal Collective live & ITW @ L’Alhambra
An interview with Panda Bear and Geologist from Animal Collective
Panda Bear-“Solo music is people trying to do something that came from their soul and music
that really expresses the feeling that they were having. I feel like we’re trying to do the same
thing , its just that we’re very different people I guess. I think its fair to say we live in very
different environments.”
Panda Bear- “I always thought that music had no power or no meaning, it didn’t translate some
kind of feeling. I don’t feel like “I really want this song to make someone feel this way”. It would
be great if they would understand something about what I was thinking when I wrote the song,
performed the song or whatever. But I don’t want to demand people to feel a certain way.”
Panda Bear- “Its actually pretty easy for us to play the songs on stage, just because we usually
write the songs and perform them live before we record them in a studio so there’s no studio
version that we’re having to match or to sound like. The song can sound like whatever it is at the
time, so that makes it a lot easier for us.”
Panda Bear- “The speakers are kind of our way of trying to keep things in our control as far as
the way it sounds on stage, we’re kind of mixing ourselves together on stage, the sound guy
does that too but it’s a way of us not having to deal with monitors and having to tell people “we
want more of this!” and “we need less of that!” That sort of thing, we’re kind of in total control
there, most of the time.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTLk7Rx4L_M
41. Panda Bear- Mr Noah (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmXIIL2tmR8
Camera pans around, giving you a view of the scene
Then get a view of some of the ‘characters’, beginning with
this dog, who is chained up, braking and pulling on the
chain
Then see this girl, who is sat on multiple chairs, reading
something
42. Then you see this man, dressed in a matching tracksuit. You see him
get up from his chair and begin to wander inside the building next
to him.
You then see this woman, crying and throwing clothes out of her
window.
Then you see this man, sitting looking at something.
43. You see the previous man sat in a chair looking at something
wander through the building. You see this scene repeated a
few times, with some colour distortions.
Then you see that man in the tracksuit from before
wandering inside, and through the building. Again, you see
this scene repeated over and over with different colour
distortions.
44. Then you see why the previous girl was crying throwing clothes
out of the window. She was throwing them at this man, who
appears to be a little glum but accepting it.
45. You see the girl throwing the clothes out of the window
again.
You then get a view inside her room. She appears to be
hysterical. You see this scene repeated a number of times,
with some colour distortions.
One of the previous men wanders outside with a fire
extinguisher, looking confused.
46. You are then taken back to the girls room, where she is sat
crying on her bed. This scene has a red filter on it.
You are taken through that same room again, though this
time she is arguing with a man. There is still a red filter.
At the end of the music video, all of the characters are
gathered around outside. Some are picking through a suitcase
of clothes, some are arguing, and the girl who was reading on
the pile of chairs right at the beginning is still reading. The
dog is now calm, just staring into the camera.
![Personal Life
Tags: Early Life Maryland School Choir Short Films Fish Sticks Fecal Matters Appy Halloween Drawing Pandas
Tags: Lisbon Portugal Tour 2003 Pernanda Pereira Fashion Designer Daughter Nadja Son 2007 Sweatshirts 2nd Things
Quotes:
"Since I got off the airplane here [for the first time] I
had a good feeling about this place.”- Noah Lennox
"connected to the European way of life”- Noah Lennox
"slow moving kind of person”- Noah Lennox
"slow moving kind of place”- Noah Lennox
Birth name: Noah Benjamin Lennox
Born: July 17 1978 (age 36)
Baltimore, Maryland US
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