Panda Bear- Sinister Grift

Noah Lennox fires Panda Bear back up with Sinister Grift, his first solo jaunt in five years, blending the brittle longing of his early days with a gutsy, electric throb that sends an odd, lingering warmth rippling through a sound that’s instantly his own. Recording in his Lisbon home studio alongside Animal Collective’s Josh “Deakin” Dibb, Lennox recasts his one-man act into a gritty rock crew, playing nearly every note himself and pulling in voices like Cindy Lee, Spirit of the Beehive’s Rivka Ravede, and, for the first time, all his Animal Collective pals, flipping isolation into a vivid, buzzing hangout.

David Walker