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Rating: When you least expect it, an album comes out that surprises you, takes you like a sweet obsession, capturing you without fail in its hypnotic coils. Accessible yet stimulating, with a surreal otherworldly quality, made of echoes and reverberations, beautiful noises and sounds that marry with sunny and explosive melodies: it's spring and Panda Bear knows it well.
In one fell swoop, he manages to surpass everything he did with the Animal Collective by finding a magical balance: ever more accessible, appealing, pleasant like a caress for the weary ear and at the same time distant, elusive, mysterious like the best passions, the lasting ones. A virtuous short circuit where you sound trippy without resorting to overused clichés, reworking old sounds (Beach Boys) making them sound new, unprecedented, unheard of. The specter of Pet Sounds hovers over the entire album but it is not a false, artificial reincarnation, rather it is the spirit of those mythical sessions that finds new life by bathing in fertile waters. Is the masterpiece "Bros" with its lysergic tail of overlapping sounds or "Good Girl/Carrots" that unfolds in three parts each more beautiful than the last? Or maybe both? 12 minutes each that pass timelessly as if they were, not hymns to God, but to the Divine. And what impact did Lisbon have on these relaxed, oceanic atmospheres?
Panda Bear finds himself far from his native America, quenching his thirst from the source of life on the opposite side of the world. And he gifts us with a series of beautiful, clear, obsessive melodies mounted on repetitive bases of absolutely warm, welcoming, human electroacoustic music. In short: what kind of album is it? Brian Wilson meets the Hare Krishna and together they decide to celebrate with LSD cakes, that's what kind of album it is! An essential release of 2007.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Comfy in Nautica (04:05)
try try try try try try (repeated)
try to tell me how to do it
only because i'm new to it
coolness is having courage
courage to do what's right
i'll try to remember always
just to have a good time
try to show me that you know me
do you know what coolness really is?
winning is what you want to
but you're scared to go forth
you try to remember always
always to have a good time
good time (x9)
try and have a softer inside
shut up boy and be a soldier
coolness is having courage
courage to do what's right
try to remember always
just to have a good time
winning is what you want to
winning but you're scared to go forth
try to remember always
always to have a good time
good time
02 Take Pills (05:24)
surely there is
no substitute
for company
my moms ripping
off her hands
one flake at a time
all her children left the house
and left her all alone
but just like shed tell me
things get better
just wait
and youll see
take one day at a time
anything more really hurts your mind
only one thing at a time
everything else you can leave behind
i dont want for us to
take pills
anymore
not that its bad
i dont want for us to take pills
because were stronger
and we dont need them
03 Bros (12:30)
hey man what's your problem
don't you know that i don't belong to you
it's hard and hard enough
to keep it up when everything is so new
i'm not trying to forget you
i just like to be alone
come and give me the space i need
and you may and you may
and you may and you may and you may
find that we're alright
i'm not trying to forget you
i just like to be my own
come and give me the space i need
and you may and you may
and you may and you may and you may
find that we're alright
i mean no offense to you
but grow up
can't you just grow up?
when are you going to
give it your own go?
give it your own go
i know i'm being way too hard
but i know that i'm trying
i know myself
and i know what i want to do
i'm doing my best
and i want to know
is it good for you?
you give me trouble
you give me everything that you've got
ill show you that
what's right for you me
ain't for you
don't look out for me
who are you to tell me how
when you've problems of your own
i do love you and
i want to hold on to you for always
06 Search for Delicious (04:53)
i think its good to be a little
it must be good to be a little
scared
i wonder what it must be like
to be on fire
and so hot
on fire
07 Ponytail (02:06)
when my soul starts glowing
when my soul starts growing
when my soul starts growing
I get so hungry
and I wish it never would stop growing
when my soul starts glowing
when my soul starts growing
when my soul starts growing
I get get so full
and I wish it never would stop growing
when my soul starts glowing
when my soul starts growing
when my soul starts growing
I am as I want to be
and I know I never will stop growing
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