Panda Bear

The US musician and Animal Collective co-founder releases his sixth album, Buoys, today..

The Animal Collective founding member will release his new album, Buoys, on February 8th..

The last time Animal Collective played Meredith Music Festival, they were interviewed after the show by a man dressed in a cow costume, trippin' on acid. Ahead of Panda Bear's return to the festival this weekend, he tells Hannah Story about musical innovation, moving abroad for love and feeling creatively restless.

"The biggest gains here are still when Panda Bear tries to break new ground."

The Tame Impala frontman strings some ''hitting the hay" tunes together for BBC Radio1..

The first album you should definitely listen to this year.. One of my cultural resolutions heading into the New Year was to listen to more albums start to finish, instead of just zoning in on hyped tracks and thrashing them. First cab off the rank is Panda Bear’s Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper, and as I come to closing bars of the final track, I couldn’t have asked for a better album to confirm this was the right resolution to make. Interesting enough, nobody heard it first as a cohesive whole: in a cool marketing move, the album was premiered track-by-track on radio stations across the globe (including Sydney’s FBi). The fifth album from Noah Lennox, the co-founder of one of the most influential alternative pop-rock acts of the 21st century, Animal Collective, was has given us a pretty damn strong album showcase in Grim Reaper, going all over the place with his beatmaking (in a good way): thematically sitting between the drippy-hippy warmth of 2007’s Person Pitch and the darker, mor

"'Mr Noah' and 'Boys Latin', with their insistent scattered beats and rhythmic vocals, are ready-made dance party tracks."