PANDA BEAR
October 2010
34 posts
You Can Count On Me
know you can count on me
know you can count on me
know you can count on me
to get so up for it
know you can count on me
i’ll get so up for it
i know at least i’ll try
who am i if i’m not up for it
where are you if i’m not up for it
want to put a bubble round you
with a force field switch
keep you secured just a little bit
but i know a secret child is just
a silly trick
who grows up to lose a force field switch
in between a hands on and a hands off
apprenticeship
where are you if i’m not up for it
i’ll get up for it
know you can count on me
know you can count on me
know you can count on me
to get so up for it
know you can count on me
i’ll get so up for it
know at least i’ll try
Alsatian Darn
Panda Bear
Panda Bear - Alsatian Darn (from the You Can Count On Me single)
Panda Bear on FYF
- Noah Lennox: Ahhh, It was alright....The festival that we played I had some problems and I played really bad. But then the next day in Pomona I thought the show was really good. So it was kinda of sweet and sour experience I would say.
- Brooklyn Vegan: Was it technical difficulties or just a big festival mess?
- Noah Lennox: It was that and they ran out water and they ran out of food and everybody just seemed like pissed. So it didn't feel very good most of the day and then I had this like crazy, monster feedback and it just sort of sucked.
“I was living in Brooklyn, right on the edge of Brooklyn Heights, right near Red Hook over there. I was walking to work actually and walking towards the subway and I didn’t know anything about it. The first plane had crashed when I was walking and everybody was walking the other way from the subway towards somewhere else. It just felt weird and smelled weird and I guess a women saw me going towards the subway stop and she was like, ‘The subway isn’t running right now.’ And and I was like “What happened?” She just pointed up in the sky and I could just see a really big pillar of smoke and you could see the building on fire.”
—Noah Lennox on September 11.
“We’ll start writing new Animal Collective stuff soon. All of our equipment is upstate, but we’re actually going to move back to Baltimore to write our next record.”
—Dave Portner on his plans for the rest of the year.
You Can Count On Me
Panda Bear
Panda Bear - You Can Count On Me (from the You Can Count On Me single)
You Can Count On Me Single Available for Download
iTunes has You Can Count On Me on sale now!
“It’s pretty much strictly this white box made by a company called Korg. It’s just this little white box that is supposed to have a keyboard attached to it but I just use it as a little box cause I thought it would be kinda be fun and interesting and weird to try and make music with this really kind of rudimentary sort of input method because you can’t really like play it per se. I sequence stuff by inputting notes and hits and stuff like that. Than I play a guitar, like I wrote all the songs on guitar first. But everything runs through this machine, this box and it’s all kind of affected, the guitar is really mutated and tweaked by this thing. Then there’s these kind of simplistic rhythms that I have programmed into the thing. That is the basic blueprint for all of the songs.”
—Noah Lennox, on what he used for Tomboy
A note on the You Can Count On Me single
I’m choosing to not post any mp3 rips from Panda Bear’s You Can Count On Me single at least until it’s officially released next week. It not only has to do with quality but out for respect for Panda Bear and his management, who have publicly spoken out against low-quality leaks before.
Until then, here’s the description of the single from Domino:
A gentle duet between Panda Bear and himself, “You Can Count On Me” glimmers with third world melodic overtones, an ethereal uplifting number that is over before you become too familiar. “Alsatian Darn” on the other hand is a much different creature…a slightly foreboding track with an off-beat melancholy chord progression that occasionally lets the light break through with a jaunty two-step, if ever so briefly.
