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September 09, 2004
In a Great Stadium and a Running Race
Panda Bear - Untitled
Noah Lennox/Panda Bear has written a gorgeous record in "Young Prayer", an album about the death of his father. It's meditative and stirring, which is appropriate considering the subject matter. And while the lyrics are practically unintelligible, the emotion that's conveyed by his moans and yelps is pre-linguistic anyway, and hits home like a punch to the gut. The vocals remind me a lot of Phil Elverum Mt. Eerie's work, just because of the way that Panda Bear stretches at points, into what would be regarded extracontextually as unnecessary melodramatics. Elverum and Lennox both sing in a way that reminds me of the feeling of intrusion that happens when you walk in on someone in the middle of an intensely personal (and not in the scatalogical or sexual way) act, e.g. praying out loud. This track (all the songs are untitled) is a good representation of the album as a whole- not exactly a record you would put on at a party, but well-suited for mid-afternoon gray-skied autumn listening. (BUY IT HERE, Soon)
Posted by matt at September 9, 2004 08:00 AM
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d00d. u r so wrong about teh microphones.
Posted by: philfan at September 10, 2004 12:46 PM