Panda Bear. Not just a heavily threatened species that now seems to be making a heartening recovery. Also a musical project for a member of Animal Collective who has a new album, (and a heavily marketed one), of his own just out. Sinister Grift, which I found myself listening to for a siazable part of Tuesday.
It's a marvellous record. Let's face it, marvellous is a marvellous word, but it struggles to do justice to Sinister Grift. I must say A nostalgic album, but the 21st Century seems to have been a largely nostalgic exercise for good and bad. I'm not choosing to dwell on the downside this morning. This is a 'no news day I've decided. I've got lessons to teach. But this focuses on nostalgia that's something to celebrate.
Sinister Grift seems to be nostalgic primarily for The Beach Boys and most obviously Pet Sounds. Like much of Grizzly Bear and some of Vampire Weekend. There are also the occasional peeks from behind the door from the lihes of Paul Simon, The Byrds and Mamas & The Papas. Hi guys!
It's all fed through a 21st Century prism.It knows where it's. situated. It's not, like some records, The La's and Ty Segall for instance, an attempt to replicate a sound and sensibility that has gone. All in all a delightful album though this kind of record that can become rather a construction line activity exercise when you hear too many of these records.
Canned happiness. I shouldn't complain really. There are worse things in life than canned happiness. This album is that ! It made me want to be in California, not a sensation I feel too often.
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