Interview Panda Bear
Polymath Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear) takes another sabbatical from Animal Collective with his sixth solo outing, the intimately beautiful, Buoys. Hamish Mackintosh spoke to Lennox about his Panda Bear modus operandi © Fernanda Pereira Last time we spoke, Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox had just finished his 2015 sampledelic opus, Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, which saw him use incongruous drum samples as a jumping off point for his infectious, melody-rich songs. The newest Panda Bear offering, Buoys, is, not for the first time, a horse of a very different colour. Where previous Panda Bear albums have been gloriously full sonic canvases, Buoys sees Lennox strip away much of the gloss for a more intimate but equally wonderful result.
Written and recorded in his adopted home…