Noah Lennox, known by his stage name Panda Bear, is an American musician and founding member of Animal Collective. He is known for his experimental and psychedelic pop music. Some of his most acclaimed solo albums include Young Prayer (2004), Person Pitch (2007), and Tomboy (2011). As a solo artist and with Animal Collective, Panda Bear cites many influences including Brian Wilson, Aphex Twin, and psychedelic bands like Spacemen 3. He is also known for his prolific and diverse body of work that incorporates elements of electronic, ambient, and experimental music.

1. Noah Lennox (a.k.a Panda Bear)
Secondary Research

2. Noah Benjamin Lennox
July 17 1978
Baltimore, Maryland US
Psychedelic pop, experimental, electronic, ambient
Vocals, drums, sampler, synthesizer, guitar, piano
Paw Tracks, FatCat Records, Domino Records, Catsup Plate, St. Ives,
UAAR, Soccer Star
Animal Collective, Jane, John Maus, Pantha du Prince, Daft Punk
(Bowery Ballroom, New York, 2007)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_Bear_(musician)

3. Tags: Early Life Maryland School Choir Short Films Fish Sticks Fecal Matters Appy Halloween Drawing Pandas
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
"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 modelled the way I approach to everything with the band watching the way Black
Dice did it.”
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4. Tags: Panda Bear 1999 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.”
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5. Tags: Lisbon Portugal Tour 2003 Pernanda Pereira Fashion Designer Daughter Nadja Son 2007 Sweatshirts 2nd Things
"Since I got off the airplane here [for
the first time] I had a good feeling
about this place."
"connected to the European way of life"
"slow moving kind of person"
"slow moving kind of place"
Tags: Musical Equipment Sampler Synthesizer
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6. Tags: Albums EPs Singles Remixes Appearances Solo

7. Tags: Jane Discography Paradise COcOnuts Berserker
1998
Electronic, Indie Pop
53:37
Soccer Star
Pitchfork Rating 6.5/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_Bear_(album)

8. Tags: First Solo 20 Soccer Star Records Deakin Panda Bear 1998
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.”
Young Prayer (2004)
Paw Tracks
Pitchfork Rating 8.5/10 Best New Music
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6141-young-prayer/

9. 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.

10. Quote:
Tags: Quote Father Cancer Young Prayer 2005
Person Pitch (2007)
Paw Tracks
Pitchfork rating 9.4/10 Best New Music
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10025-person-pitch/

11. Tags: Person Pitch Artists Basic Channel Luomo Dettinger Wolfgang Voigt
Tags: Dance Music Structure Repetition
Tags: Beach Boys Brian Wilson
Tags: Brian Wilson Sampling

12. 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.
Tomboy (2011)
Paw Tracks
Pitchfork rating 8.5/10 Best New Music
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15299-tomboy/

13. Tags: Arthur Russell Brian Wilson
Tags: Pete Kember Sonic Boom Spectrum Spacemen 3 Beach Boys The Velvet Underground

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

16. Tags: Person
Pitch Tomboy
Pressure
http://altmusic.about.com/od/interviews/a/Noah-Lennox-Of-Panda-Bear_2.htm

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Person
Pitch
Depressive
Take Pills
Tomboy
Young
Prayer
Lyrics

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Son Rhythm

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Chillwave
Person
Pitch Ariel
Pink

20. 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.

21. http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/features/interviews/wheres-your-lord-glenn-obrien-talks-to-panda-bear/
Tags: Milan Tour Electronic Acoustic
Piano Guitar Cello Synthesizers Pre-
Digital Analog

23. Tags: Live Unreleased

24. Tags: Improvising John Hassell
Trumpet Jazz Electronic World
Music The Beach Boys

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Kember Kids Collective Intellectual

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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.

27. 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/

28. Tags: Tomboy Pete Kember Sonic
Boom Spacemen 3 Collaboration
Lyrics Growth Children Creative
Process 2014

29. 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/

30. 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: Favorite New Band
4Taste Favorite Song Astrud
Gilberto Tom Jobim

32. Tags: Radio 1993 Philadelphia
Football Baseball Hockey
Basketball WIP Dutch Polish
Boarding School Daft Punk
Coachella

33. Tags: Music Equipment Boss
SP-303 Dr. Sample Madlib The
Unseen Favorite Record Store
Other Music New York

35. Tags: Favorite Venue The
Mercury Lounge New
York Animal Collective
Herbert The Strokes
VoxHall Aarhus Newtown
Sydney

36. 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.

37. 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

38. Tags: Young Prayer 2004 Father Cancer Songs
New Meaning Panda Bear Animal Collective
Bedroom Recording Cello Piano Tenor Choir
Boston University Major Religion

39. 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.

40. 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