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Panda Bear is Noah Benjamin Lennox, a co-founding member of Animal Collective whose solo work stopped reading as a side project a long time ago. He has used the name since 1998, and the music has stayed in the neighborhood of psychedelic pop and neo-psychedelia while leaning steadily harder on electronics than on anything a rock band would recognize. Person Pitch, from 2007, sits high on Acclaimed Music's all-time list, the kind of placement that tends to define an artist for good. Reset, released in 2022 on Domino, is the sound of someone who kept following the same instincts for another fifteen years instead of chasing the record that made his name.
Charlottesville is where it starts. Lennox has spent his career in more than one band at once, holding down Animal Collective and Jane while the records under his own alias piled up, and that habit of splitting his attention shows in the writing: the solo material treats studio experiment and plain melody as the same job rather than opposite ones.
Live, he has taken the material to Roskilde Festival alongside Sonic Boom, and to smaller rooms including Rough Trade East and Rough Trade Berlin, a range that says something about how the songs travel. Panda Bear is a strong fit for college programmers, festival and performing arts center lineups, and private engagements looking for an established name in experimental pop rather than a straight rock booking.
