Tomboy

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AlbumApr 11 / 201111 songs, 49m 53s
Psychedelic Pop Ambient Pop
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8.5 / 10

Four years on from the landmark Person Pitch, Panda Bear returns with a record that embraces both summer fun and hushed spirituality.

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Since its release in 2007, Panda Bear’s Person Pitch has caused admirers to go overboard with superlatives. Here’s one more: It’s the Pet Sounds of the 21st century. Go ahead and roll your eyes, detractors—Person Pitch’s effervescence might be in the eye of the beholder, but the album’s outsized influence is…

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After four years of very little solo activity, Noah Lennox returns with Tomboy — an effort that scales back on many of the infectious samples that made his third LP such an appealing record, instead inviting us into his own lush ambient-pop landscapes. While not as immediately accessible as its forerunner, Tomboy rewardingly unveils itself with each passing listen....

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Bringing an aural sharpness in contrast to the kaleidoscopic, woozy swirl of 2007’s Person Pitch, Tomboy finds Noah Lennox further straddling the experimental/pop divide with increasing dexterity.

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While “You Can Count On Me,” the first song on Panda Bear’s Tomboy, is about having children and wanting to keep them safe (“Want to put a bubble ‘round you/Like a force field switch”), it could just as easily be read as a response to the pres

The Animal Collective man's fourth solo album is as rich as its predecessor, writes <strong>Hermione Hoby</strong>

While Person Pitch rippled with punctuated sound, Tomboy is a cyclic plateau.

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<strong>Maddy Costa</strong> couldn't help but be hopelessly absorbed in Panda Bear's hypnotic new album

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Released bit by bit through a series of digital downloads and singles over the past year, the reputation of Tomboy precedes itself.

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Perhaps more than any other act in recent memory, Panda Bear and his Animal Collective bros spawned countless imitators, bedroom producers and jigsaw sample-snippers, bands catching and riding that re-imagined pop wave of rhythmic pastiche. The immediate nostalgia embedded in Person Pitch's aesthetic allowed it rare accessibility for an album so strange, and that it

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