Person Pitch

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In 2007, no one saw <i>Person Pitch</i> coming. The third solo album from Animal Collective member Noah Lennox—recording as Panda Bear—was an absolute revelation to anyone who’d been closely following not only his music, but the general trajectory of indie as a whole. <i>Person Pitch</i>’s bright and melancholic electronic pop sound was worlds away from his previous record, 2004’s meditative and monastic <i>Young Prayer</i>. And though the wild-eyed melodic bursts of Animal Collective’s 2004 breakout <i>Sung Tongs</i> gestured towards <i>Person Pitch</i>’s impossibly lush Brian Wilson-ism, nothing about <i>Sung Tongs</i>’ sparse structure hinted at the absolute swarm of sound Lennox would conjure on this landmark of an album. Beyond creating its own totally unique sonic world, <i>Person Pitch</i> proved massively influential on an entire generation of DIY musician, and is considered one of the building blocks for the 2010s chillwave subgenre. Its reach extended to the other members of Animal Collective themselve, who drew from Lennox’s love of the low end for their own epochal <i>Merriweather Post Pavilion</i> in 2009. .

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