Panda Bear - Person Pitch
This is an interesting album, to me, because it serves as a transition between the Animal Collective albums of the past, such as Sung Tongs (for crying out loud, what is up with these people and their embarrassing names for everything?), and Merriweather Post Pavilion (embarrassment level reduced by 10%), their album from this year. Animal Collective was, to me, an example of experimenting for experimenting’s sake, so I wrote them off until the hype got up about their latest. They seem to have turned a leaf, as it is in my view driven by values, not means.
Person Pitch ends up behaving like an iteration, one of a series of successive approximations leading up to Merriweather Post Pavilion. I’m curious to see whether MPP itself is a peak - perhaps these people will really tear into the fabric of reality next.
7 months ago
