A Week With Panda Bear's "Person Pitch": Day 1
30 April 2007
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Words by Sean Moeller // Illustration by Anika Heinz
Person Pitch is not a doppelganger of a Simon & Garfunkel album, re-mixed by a dub/beat hall extraordinaire, though damn if it doesn’t come across as such on more than a few occasions, bleeding some of that sweat music into the tongues of those two pot smoker’s folkish mentality. Noah Lennox, known most famously as a member of the Animal Collective, has taken over two years working on this, his third album, and the result is a disc that – despite all of the samples and bits and pieces – so help me reminds one of The Beachwood Sparks and Creeper Lagoon. This album is what it’s like when the first spring day catches us from behind and the initial impulse is one that sends you clamoring to the windows to throw them up and opne, to finally pull some fresh and new air into the place. Today’s like that. It’s as warm as you’d like it to be this early into the hot weather season and all of us forget what sunscreen is, what those ceiling fans were used for lo those many months ago. The intention of the record was to make it danceable. Lennox told me in an interview, “I wanted to make something casual sounding and not so serious. I knew I wanted to do something that felt good – good and sweet. I’m a really big fan of dance music. It’s a pleasing sensation, walking into a dance club and seeing a backbone of movement out there. I like pretty much all music, but I remember, when I was in high school, I moved into this kid’s room and he let me listen to a bunch of techno and house stuff and I’d never heard anything like that before. I was really psyched on it. I started going to a lot of DJ nights around town. The thing that really got me so psyched about being around 50 or 100 people getting into the music was the amplification of it and the bass of it.” Person Pitch is the most recent album known to accelerate a suntan and bleach hair, though you’ll get to do it in darkness, because there’s no better area of the house to listen to it than in a cool, musky basement.
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