“As long as everyone puts the song above everything else, things tend to work out ok”: An Interview with Panda Bear

Noah Lennox (Baltimore, 47), the musician who is sheltered under the pseudonym Panda Bear, is restless. It turns out that he has just released Ferry Lady’s video clip, the second advance of his new album Sinister Grift —Sinister Estafa. The song is a delight, inside an exquisite album. He has applied his classic layer of organic electronics to a melody reminiscent of those of the lovers rock, the romantic reggae of the eighties. The only problem…

“As long as everyone puts the song above everything else, things tend to work out ok”: An Interview with Panda Bear

It’s been 25 years since the first Animal Collective release — 2000’s Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished, which was originally released under the name Avey Tare and Panda Bear — and in the intervening years, Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear) has developed a series of unparalleled musical dialects. Both in tandem with, and apart from, his bandmates, he has shown a true aptitude for showcasing kaleidoscopic pop psychedelia, dense rock mutatio…