Will Schube’s spirit animal is George ‘The Animal’ Steel The success of Merriweather Post Pavilion may prevent such a day from ever coming into fruition, but Panda Bear’s making it awfully hard to think of him as a solo artist subservient to his Animal Collective obligations. Noah Lennox’s solo work has been consistently great–Panda Bear’s […]

  Douglas Martin knows what you did last summer at the Jetty. In the Year of Our Lord 2014, Noah is still the humble shepherd forced with the task of leading whatever we refer to as “indie music” to the fabled promised land. Whereas most of Tomboy felt more subdued and its best moments either […]

Sach O prefers his Pavilions Flux to Merriweather Post. Still haven’t listened to Panda Bear’s Tomboy, highly doubt I will. As important as Animal Collective are to other people, their whole pastoral, hippie, art-school thing never quite jibed with me and their electronic explorations never seemed that impressive when compared to say, Aphex Twin or […]

Douglas Martin wrote this while drunk on Manischewitz. 1 Long after the Lord created the earth, the sky, the sea, the universe, and man, he created Noah. Perennially boyish in both looks and voice, Noah was a humble servant of the Lord, and the Lord loved him very much. 2 While the alt-bros freely roamed […]

Among the spectacles and soy taco set, this remix is tantamount to Ray Davies circa 1970 tweaking a Marc Bolan cut featuring John Lennon. The analogy’s dubious, but the sentiment isn’t. Right now, if Panda Bear, Four Tet, and their Teutonic cohort traipsed through the Mission District, they would be showered with rose petals and […]