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Photo credit: Fernanda Pereira

Near the tail end of 2018, Panda Bear a.k.a. Noah Lennox, founding member of Animal Collective, announced Buoys – a full-length follow up to 2015’s kaleidoscopic album Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper and the vinyl-only EP A Day With The Homies (2018). Buoys will be released February 8th 2019.

Today, Panda Bear presents a new single from the album – ‘Token‘. The lusty, cascading track arrives with a video directed by and starring experimental producer & musician Dean Blunt.

Here’s what happens when you ask Dean to direct a music video:

Watch video for “Token” HERE
Listen to “Token” via DSPs HERE

In tandem with the start of the New Year comes the arrival of the Most Anticipated Albums of 2019 lists, many of which feature Buoys. Check out lists from Vulture, SPIN, Pitchfork, Stereogum and Consequence of Sound, all of which include mention of the forthcoming album.

Listen to previous single ‘Dolphin’ HERE
Digital animation by Crash Override

Watch an album trailer by Danny Perez featuring previously unreleased music from Buoys HERE

Buoys was co-produced and co-mixed by collaborator Rusty Santos in Lennox’s adopted home of Lisbon, Portugal. Lennox and Santos last collaborated on the landmark Panda Bear album Person Pitch, which had its 10-year anniversary last year.

Alongside Santos, Buoys also features collaborators in Chilean DJ/vocalist Lizz and Portuguese musician Dino D’Santiago, both artists who came to Lennox via Santos’ recent trap and reggaeton production work; the former contributes arrangements throughout the album including ‘Dolphin’, and both lend their vocals to ‘Inner Monologue’.

Buoys will be available on CD, LP, and Limited Edition LP, and digitally on February 8, 2019. Buoys artwork was created by Danny Perez, with photography by Fernanda Pereira, and with additional design by Rob Carmichael, SEEN.

Pre-order the album HERE

Buoys artwork by Danny Perez, photography by Fernanda Pereira, with additional design by Rob Carmichael, SEEN.

Buoys tracklisting
01. Dolphin
02. Cranked
03. Token
04. I Know I Don’t Know
05. Master
06. Buoys
07. Inner Monologue
08. Crescendo
09. Home Free

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Panda Bear A Day With The Homies Out 12th January 2018 VINYL 12” RELEASE ONLY

Domino is excited to share news of the forthcoming 12” EP from Panda Bear, entitled A Day With The Homies, on January 12, 2018.

The limited 12” is now available to pre-order at the Animal Collective store, Bleep and will be available physically in-stores on January 12, 2018.

PRE-ORDER HERE

Panda Bear a.k.a. Noah Lennox on A Day With The Homies:

“It’s been my perception that these things tend to homogenize experience so I hope you’ll forgive me if I don’t outline, in any specific way, the many choices involved in its creation. I appreciate your role as filter or translator, and by withholding my own blueprints for the album, I mean to encourage and cultivate your part in its trip.

The songs aren’t lyrically linear or narrative as such, though I did scatter pieces of longer-chewed themes across the tracks. I find they still work satisfactorily alone, but strengthen each other’s messages when combined.

I hoped to make something without frills or much embellishment, principally because I’ve found more fluff tends to equal less power. Since the juiciest action is entirely focused in the deeper zones of the frequency spectrum (at least from where I’ve sat), power was key.

It’s not often anymore I find something specific to my life that feels worthwhile setting to song for others to consume. It’s a tough sell convincing myself that my own troubles warrant as much attention as those we all share. The strokes of the messages themselves are broad enough, then, that I think anybody can find a familiar face, if they care to look.

The lion’s share of the noise is centered, or nearly, so both speakers get a taste. This is another nod towards power, but it also means HOMIES doesn’t work in the same way through headphones as it does out in the air.

My greatest hope with this stuff is for it to live like my favorite songs do, which is to say like comforts or companions. Thank you very much for listening and I hope A Day With the Homies can mean something to you.”

A Day With The Homies 12” EP tracklisting

Side A
A1. Flight
A2. Part of the Math

Side B
B1. Shepard Tone
B2. Nod to the Folks
B3. Sunset