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April 2011

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Hey! I discovered your page a few days ago, and have read and viewed every single page (60 i think) in less than 24H! ¿Why didn t i discover this page earlier? Anyhow, i just have a request: ¿Would it be posibel to add more info to the pictures (say: where/when)? Also: ¿Do you know if we are going to get live footage of Tomboy? Danny Perez had the "Out-Fest" in Portugal recorded with a single static camera ¿do we know anything about that? Thank you for creating this page! I now need something similar for Avey to feel complete!

Thanks! I try to add information about the photos when I can, but most of them are from either just google searches, when a photo is just used without any other information, press photos, or Flickr (which I always link to). As far as live footage of songs from Tomboy, I don’t know about anything official. I haven’t heard anything about it or what Danny Perez filmed. I only like to post news on here that I know is official or at least confirmed, so if I find anything out for sure it’ll be posted here.

Apr 30, 20111 note
Apr 30, 201118 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #way out west fest #local natives
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers' Audio Portraits: Panda Bear's Tomboy → ascap.com

Noah Lennox talks with ASCAP for their Audio Portraits series regarding Tomboy, going over “You Can Count On Me,” “Alsatian Darn,” “Tomboy,” “Afterburner,” and “Benfica.” From ASCAP:

Panda Bear’s Tomboy is the latest solo recording by Noah Lennox, the singer-songwriter centerpiece of Animal Collective. In this soothing yet sonically adventurous recording, Lennox explores personal questions about work and family behind a lush and moodily intriguing veil of layered sound, harmony, vocals and percussive convergences. Lennox wants to take listeners on a journey of aural delights and inner awakenings — and he does.

Apr 29, 20115 notes
#ascap #panda bear #noah lennox #tomboy #audio portraits #You Can Count on Me #alsatian darn #afterburner #Benfica
Surfer's Hymn Panda Bear

Panda Bear - Surfers Hymn

Apr 28, 201147 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #surfers hymn #tomboy
Apr 27, 201134 notes
#Brian Weitz #Dave Portner #avey tare #geologist #noah lennox #panda bear #Animal Collective
“This is some mastering work for Panda Bear. They’re talking about doing a special edition of Tomboy. I’m not entirely sure if it’s been announced, and if they are going to do it what it’s going to contain, but I’m doing some stuff that may become part of that.” —Peter Kember, aka Sonic Boom, who produced Tomboy, on what he’s working on now.
Apr 27, 20115 notes
#panda bear #peter kember #sonic boom #tomboy #altered zones
Apr 26, 201140 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #Ducks
“It’s weird on so many levels because I’m back staying in my mom’s house. She has this whole top floor that she doesn’t really use. It’s like having our own place but not. And I’m taking my daughter to the same school that I went to. So I’m back in my family’s house, going to the school that I used to, going over to Josh’s house to work all the time like I used to. It’s like a total restart on everything.” —Noah Lennox, on being back in Baltimore to work on new Animal Collective material.
Apr 25, 201123 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #Animal Collective #pitchfork #baltimore
On the Tomboy Groove Messages

The Tomboy vinyl has etchings on the grooves of Side A and Side B.

Side A reads:

Can I call you a car?

Side B reads:

I’m a notorious coat wearer.

Sonic Boom, who produced Tomboy, sometimes posts on Collected Animals, the Animal Collective message board. On the etchings:

The Noahtorious one , when at blanker unsinn , and asked if he was cold replied ‘no , i’m a notorious coat wearer’ , which was very amusing to me & nick kramer , so i wanted to remember it .the joy of run out grooves - many older discs have these messages .
likewise , at the end of the night i asked noah if I could call him a car . he unreservedly gave me permission to call him that .

Apr 24, 201122 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #collected animals #sonic boom #tomboy vinyl
A Lover Once Can No Longer Now Be a Friend Panda Bear

Panda Bear - A Lover Once Can No Longer Now Be a Friend

Apr 24, 201163 notes
#panda bear #A Lover Once Can No Longer Now Be a Friend
Apr 23, 201145 notes
#noah lennox #panda bear #victoria legrand #Ducks #way out west fest
Country Road

keepcompany:

On the road

Apr 22, 201116 notes
#Animal Collective #keep company #Deakin #Josh Dibb #noah lennox #panda bear #avey tare #Dave Portner #geologist #Brian Weitz
Alien Workshop Offering Limited Edition Tomboy Skateboards → alienworkshop.com
Apr 22, 20113 notes
#alien workshop #panda bear #noah lennox #tomboy #skateboards
Apr 21, 201119 notes
#Animal Collective #panda bear #noah lennox #Deakin #Josh Dibb #coachella 2011
Animal Instincts: Panda Bear, 'Tomboy' → expressnightout.com

Liner Notes
Express asked Noah Lennox to explain the stories behind three standout songs from his fouth album, “Tomboy:”

“You Can Count on Me”

The album-opener is a response to “Person Pitch’s” “I’m Not,” which was about the pressure of having his first child. “You Can Count on Me” is Lennox’s “taking care of business song.” He hopes others find it a source of strength or a rallying call.

“Slow Motion”

Inspired by 1990s R&B, “Slow Motion” features the genre’s “chunky and heavy” production. Both in name and sound, it owes a great debt to Mary J Blige’s “Real Love,” which was “a source of inspiration for the rhythmic side of that song,” Lennox says.

“Last Night at the Jetty”

“Last Night at the Jetty” is a nostalgic song on two levels, Lennox says. On one, it’s about Lennox’s relationship with making music and how that’s changed over time: “I feel like I’m constantly trying to hide things about the meaning of the songs and where I’m coming from,” he explains. On the other, it’s literally about a “last night at the jetty” for a group of friends (inspired by Lennox’s own pals); when the night was over, “they knew they would never have that vibe again.”

Apr 20, 201126 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #express #tomboy #You Can Count on Me #slow motion #last night at the jetty
Animal Collective US Tour Dates

Animal Collective’s Tour for May and July (including Merriweather Post Pavilion):

05-14 Minehead, England - All Tomorrow’s Parties
05-16 Eastbourne, England - Winter Gardens
05-17 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
05-18 Brussels, Belgium - Les Nuit
05-19 Cologne, Germany - Electron
05-20 Berlin, Germany - Melt Wee
05-21 Warsaw, Poland - Stodola
05-22 Krakow, Poland - TBA
05-23 Vienna, Austria - Arena Vienna
05-24 Zagreb, Croatia - Pogon Jedinstvo
05-25 Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
05-26-27 Dudingen, Switzerland - Bad Bonn Festival Kilbi
05-28 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
07-07 Orlando, FL - Beacham Theatre
07-08 Alpharetta, GA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
07-09 Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
07-12 Brooklyn, NY - Prospect Park Bandshell
07-13 Millvale, PA - Mr. Smalls Theatre
07-15 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival

Apr 19, 201115 notes
#Animal Collective #US Tour
Play
Apr 19, 201134 notes
#Animal Collective #live #2001 #there's an arrow #essplode #tell it to the mountain #pride and fight
Apr 19, 201128 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #Animal Collective
Apr 18, 201166 notes
#Animal Collective #panda bear #noah lennox #geologist #Brian Weitz #avey tare #Dave Portner
Listen

Panda Bear - Drone (Live at Governors Island 2010)

Apr 17, 201113 notes
#noah lennox #panda bear #Drone (Live at Governors Island 2010)
Apr 17, 201143 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #baby picture #fader #aziz ansari
I probably should of read that article first. My mistake I guess. But it said in the magazine. Oh well this is embarrassing. Thanks for clarifying! Sorry for the trouble.

The magazine listed all the photos in the back of the issue and labeled them them sort of vaguely, but did mislabel that picture. I’m reposting the picture on its own with the quote so it’s clearer.

Apr 17, 20111 note
Apr 17, 201176 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #the fader magazine
hey, can you link me to that photo/text where noah says that thing about the tent where he experiments with drugs and sex? thanks

I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Apr 16, 20112 notes
A note on the Governors Island download

You might have noticed some problems with the digital download of Panda Bear’s September 11, 2010 Governors Island show from the download card that came with the Tomboy CD and vinyl. Some of the songs were cut off, static, etc.

Paw Tracks re-uploaded the show with those problems fixed. Even if you already redeemed your access code before it was fixed you’re still able to download it again.

The previous post on here with “Benfica” from the Governors Island show has also been fixed with the new file.

Apr 16, 20112 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #governors island 2011 #tomboy #paw tracks
Apr 16, 201180 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #rolling stone
“I wanted to do something more direct and upfront, because I felt like the Person Pitch songs were floating in space a little bit, and really took their time getting from point A to point B. So I wanted to do a bunch of short songs - I wanted it to be something that hit you in the face repeatedly, and hopefully not in a bad way!” —Noah Lennox, on Tomboy.
Apr 16, 201118 notes
#noah lennox #panda bear #tomboy #Person Pitch #drowned in sound
Apr 15, 201110 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #way out west fest
Play
Apr 15, 201126 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #Ponytail #last night at the jetty #benfica #comfy in nautica #slow motion
You Can Count On Me Panda Bear

Panda Bear - You Can Count On Me

Apr 14, 201151 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #You Can Count on Me #tomboy
Apr 14, 201144 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox
Apr 13, 201115 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #victoria legrand #Ducks #way out west fest
Around 3:30 is prime panda adorable. haha. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIL5oOqHHfU

Drum master.

Apr 13, 20113 notes
“Even before I wrote any songs, I had this idea of a triangle where the voice was at the top, some sort of guitar element on one side, and then some sort of really basic rhythm on the other side. That’s where I started from in the recording process.” —Noah Lennox, on Tomboy.
Apr 13, 201113 notes
#noah lennox #panda bear #tomboy #pitchfork
Apr 13, 201111 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #tomboy #tomboy vinyl
Apr 13, 20118 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #tomboy #tomboy vinyl
How do you like "Slow Motion"?

I want to take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.

Apr 12, 20115 notes
Apr 12, 201111 notes
#Animal Collective #panda bear #noah lennox
“I was tired of making songs that way. I wore out this formula in my last solo album and the Animal Collective. I started to feel I was always writing the same song, using the same tricks, and wanted to avoid repeating myself. Even before I started recording “Tomboy” I knew that I would not use samples.” —Noah Lennox, on sampling.
Apr 12, 20117 notes
#noah lennox #panda bear #ionline
Apr 12, 201115 notes
#reblog #panda bear #noah lennox
Apr 12, 201123 notes
#reblog #panda bear #noah lennox
Benfica Panda Bear

Panda Bear - Benfica (Live at Governors Island 2010)

The CD and LP of Tomboy comes with a download card for a digital copy of Tomboy as well as Panda Bear’s show at Governors Island on September 11, 2010.

Apr 12, 201110 notes
#noah lennox #panda bear #tomboy #Benfica (Live at Governors Island 2010)
Apr 12, 201141 notes
#Animal Collective #geologist #Brian Weitz #avey tare #Dave Portner #Deakin #Josh Dibb #panda bear #noah lennox
“To be honest, I think Scotland means more to me than it did my dad. He was a surgeon, but in 2002 he got brain cancer and died. My first solo record, Young Prayer, was all about him. He was the biggest influence on my life and his death still affects me now. He was the first in my family to see one of our shows. That was pretty weird: Dave (Portner], Brian (Weitz] and myself in a bookstore which put on avant garde nights. We set a short story about a boys’ hunting trip to music using these manipulated tapes and mad drumming from me. The three of us were down to our underwear, covered in feathers and blood. Dad liked it, or he said he did!” —Noah Lennox
Apr 12, 201153 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #the scotsman
TOMBOY

Is officially released today.

Apr 12, 201115 notes
#tomboy #panda bear #noah lennox
Apr 12, 20116 notes
#reblog #panda bear #noah lennox
Tomboy Now Available on iTunes → itunes.apple.com

You can now purchase Tomboy from the US iTunes Store.

Apr 11, 20113 notes
#panda bear #noah lennox #tomboy #iTunes
It's a little like Christmas Eve.
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#panda bear #noah lennox #way out west fest
Apr 10, 201141 notes
#animal collective #panda bear #noah lennox #deakin #josh dibb #brian weitz #avey tare #dave portner
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