Melting Vinyl presents:
Panda Bear + Maria Reis
Friday 6th June 2025
at Chalk, Brighton
Doors 6pm / Start 7.15pm
£22.50 + booking fee in adv / £26.50 on the door
Standing
Age restrictions - 14+, Under 16's to be accompanied
Panda Bear makes a welcome return with new album Sinister Grift.
Two decades since debuting as the masked-and-nicknamed drummer and vocalist of Animal Collective, Noah Lennox has led so many creative lives, navigated so many different styles, and been part of so many beloved recordings, that it can be easy to overlook just how consistent his creative vision has remained.
From landmarks solo albums like 2007’s Person Pitch and 2015’s Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, to breakthroughs with Animal Collective like 2004’s Sung Tongs and 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, to his boundary-pushing collaborations with Daft Punk and Solange, Dean Blunt and Paramore, all of his work followed an instantly identifiable emotional throughline while influencing multiple generations and genres of artists.
On Sinister Grift, Lennox’s first solo album in five years, he has returned with another statement that feels equally cumulative and unprecedented in his catalog. While his solo records have ranged from starkly intimate expressions of grief to colorful, electronic opuses, his music has never before sounded so warm and immediate.
Working in his Lisbon, Portugal home studio with Animal Collective bandmate Josh “Deakin” Dibb, Lennox transforms Panda Bear into something resembling an old-school rock ensemble, playing nearly all the instruments himself and inviting kindred spirits into the process such as Cindy Lee, Spirit of the Beehive’s Rivka Ravede, and—for the first time on a Panda Bear solo album—each of his Animal Collective bandmates.
Maria Reis has been steadily creating a legacy that will undoubtedly endure in the Portuguese songwriting canon for years to come. Co-founder of the Lisbon based Cafetra label-collective... Reis has recorded the 'Flor da Urtiga' EP with assistance from Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear. This is a sweet affair, crossed by a witty irony that tackles such subjects as family, love and toxic masculinity, through layered acoustic guitars, lightweight percussion and joyful harmonies.
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