Album: Panda Bear, Tomboy (Paw Tracks)

Andy Gill
Friday 15 April 2011 00:00 BST
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Fans need not worry unduly: Panda Bear's claim that this follow-up to 2007's Person Pitch would be less sampler-based, and that the influence of Nirvana and The White Stripes had inspired him to make music "with a heavy focus on guitar and rhythm", proves almost entirely unfounded on Tomboy, which involves few obvious guitar riffs but plenty of drifting sound-washes, found-sound collaging, loops and heavily reverbed high vocals, in his usual manner.

It's a gentle, woozy mood-scape in which nostalgia for the candyfloss summers of childhood shades imperceptibly into the sweet melancholy of encroaching autumn. In places it sounds like Burial meets Brian Wilson, while elsewhere the vocals recall the Everly Brothers or Fleet Foxes heard through sheets of gauze.

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