Go backstage with The Music and receive FREE:

Exclusive members-only editorial, charts
Our subscriber-only newsletter
Members only competitions to win tickets, experiences and more
Access to our street press archives
First access to our exclusive limited edition vinyl variants

Thank you for being a part of our community! Enter your email address as verification and you'll be taken backstage right away.

Email Address

Please ensure that you provide a valid email address.

First Name

Last Name

Country

Mobile Number (optional)

New Music: Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper (Album Stream)

Pilerats

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