Panda Bear, also known as Noah Lennox, is preparing to release his new album TOMBOY. He decided to 'test out' some new material at Primavera Music Festival. Some bro from Pitchfork Magazine attended the music festival and basically said 'it sucked, but he's panda bro so let's not be too hard on him yet.'

It seems like they 'buried the article' far within their blogspot, perhaps attempting to 'distance themselves' from Panda Bear, but not wanting him to find out in case he is one of those indie artists who searches p4k for their name every day.

At first, they sorta make excuses for him, saying like 'dude was a 1 man band and it is hard 2 place 100 instruments at once', but then they are like 'we wish he had the rest of the Animal Collective with him':

Whenever I see a guy starting his set like Panda Bear did tonight, stepping out with a guitar around his neck and making his way to a bank of electronic gear and a single microphone, ready to do a show all by himself, I think: This dude has too much to do up there. Performing and singing are difficult enough without essentially mixing live sound in between guitar strums. Which is to say Panda Bear seemed like he missed the rest of the Collective a little bit during this solo show.

They said that he was a 'tough sell' because he was mad boring because the tech bros didn't setup his projector:

without the visuals that usually accompany his solo performances (trouble with the projection set-up), his low-key stage presence made his set, heavy on unfamiliar new material, a tougher sell

Here is the traditional excerpt where they try 2 use words to describe how the music sounds:

Some of the new songs sounded very promising and increased my anticipation for Tomboy; they were varied in terms of mood and texture, going from loping breakbeats underneath sing-song pop structures to dark, squelchy, almost acid-like synth programming to bleak drones.

They closed out the review by emphasizing that people were happiest when he played his old music,

But the spark of excited cheering that popped up when he played Person Pitch's "Ponytail" about halfway through was a reminder that a festival crowd is a tough place to try out the new stuff. Some music needs a little time to sink in.

Found a video of that moment, and it seemed like fans were 'mad jacked' to hear a song they recognized:

Do u think they are 'entry level' or authentic bros?

Worried. Feel like TOMBOY 'might not save 2k10' after all. Feel like Pitchfork is trying to 'distance themselves' from the Panda Bear brand before they give it a 7.3, writing a review that basically says 'wish he woulda just stayed with the ANCO bros.'

Will TOMBOY prove that Avey Tare is the most important member of Animal Collective?
Is TOMBOY gonna 'blow'?
Will Pitchfork 'throw Panda Bear under the bus', holding him accountable for a lackluster album, or will they just 'baby him' like they do with older indie bands?
R u worried 4 Panda Bear?
Do u think the album will be 'amazing' but it will talk 5-10 years to 'get'?
Is Panda Bear always 'ahead of his time'?
Should AnCo just stay 2gether forever? Like we pay for them to live in a house with a bunch of webcams where we can watch them make music, eat, poop, shower, and miscellaneous 'voyeur' type of stuff?
Did Panda Bear 'mail in' this album just to make indie dollars?
R u worried or excited about the TOMBOY album cycle?
Do u think a journalist will write an article about how Noah Lennox is a 'disgusting human being' just to get hits + press?

Panda Bear

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Panda Bear is a member of Animal Collective. He wrote the hit album "Person Pitch" but failed to deliver in 2k10 with TOMBOY.

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