Panda Bear

Born in Charlottesville, Virginia and raised in Baltimore, Noah Lennox, under the name Panda Bear, develops a body of work situated between psychedelic pop, electronic music and melodic experimentation, marked by vocal loops, cloud-like harmonies and a taste for repetitive structures. A founding member of Animal Collective since the late 1990s, Panda Bear has in parallel pursued a solo path started with Panda Bear in 1999, then Young Prayer in 2004, before a more assertive turn with Person Pitch in 2007, an album built around sonic collage and bright songs with blurred contours. Based in Lisbon since the mid-2000s, Panda Bear later evolved his writing toward more direct forms on Tomboy in 2011, then toward a pop that remains off-kilter but denser on Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper in 2015 and Buoys in 2019. His trajectory also crosses with that of other artists, from Daft Punk on "Doin’ It Right" to Sonic Boom, with whom he signs the collaborative album Reset in 2022. In 2025, Panda Bear releases Sinister Grift, recorded with the participation of Deakin, continuing a body of work where the song remains central despite moving textures, between domestic psychedelia, electronic pulsation and refrains treated as sonic material.