Review Round-Up with Bryan Menegus Panda Bear - Tomboy Tomboy isn’t a record you listen to with squinted, analytical ears, it’s a record you experience, preferably in a hammock with a cold gin & tonic. Case in point: nothing on Tomboy really qualifies as a ‘song’. Instead, Panda Bear (one of the main creative forces in the inventive albeit over-lauded Animal Collective) makes textures. Tomboy is like a 50-minute droning Gregorian hymnal for a religion whose main rite of passage includes regular doses of LSD. While it’s certainly not the most engaging listen, this record captures an otherworldly mood which, at the very least, seems to be pushing the musical envelope. RIYL: afternoon bong rips Grade: B+

Review Round-Up

with Bryan Menegus

Panda Bear - Tomboy

Tomboy isn’t a record you listen to with squinted, analytical ears, it’s a record you experience, preferably in a hammock with a cold gin & tonic. Case in point: nothing on Tomboy really qualifies as a ‘song’. Instead, Panda Bear (one of the main creative forces in the inventive albeit over-lauded Animal Collective) makes textures. Tomboy is like a 50-minute droning Gregorian hymnal for a religion whose main rite of passage includes regular doses of LSD. While it’s certainly not the most engaging listen, this record captures an otherworldly mood which, at the very least, seems to be pushing the musical envelope.

RIYL: afternoon bong rips

Grade: B+

∞12:55 pm, BY hofstrachronicle
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