February 28, 2025 • For most of the '00s, Panda Bear helped define the sound of youthful, ramshackle indie rock. On Noah Lennox's eighth album, Sinister Grift, the artist focuses on the shifting ...

Two decades since debuting as the masked-and-nicknamed drummer and vocalist of Animal Collective, Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear has led so many creative lives, navigated so many different styles, and ...

For most of the '00s, Panda Bear and Animal Collective scribbled outside the lines of indie rock and made up their own rules, releasing albums that flouted expectations. Animal Collective built its ...

If ever we needed a reminder of human ingenuity and artistic integrity, it’s now. All of this is to say, I don’t think there’s ever been a better time for a new Panda Bear release to drop. In a career ...

THE SKINNY: At the very crux of our love for harmonic layering is a romanticising of the interband dynamics that sit beneath them. For Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), that’s an antiquated concept in a world ...

It takes a complex and accomplished musical mind to crystallise the sort of ideas showcased on Panda Bear‘s latest album, Sinister Grift. Somewhere between The Beach Boys and Syd Barrett, Panda Bear’s ...

Not quite the thematic fare of boys from Neverland. Sinister Grift, the eighth Panda Bear album, finds the now 46-year-old Lennox negotiating a bold new world: middle age. That little girl is now ...

On March 16, National Panda Day draws attention to one of the world’s unique bears. Pandas are also one of the world’s most endangered and adored animals. Conservationists and animal lovers ...

It has been a few years since we heard from a lone Panda Bear, the ever-evolving vehicle for Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox. While the past few years for the artist have been defined by ...

A local little girl's good deed has caught the attention of an international company.When West Chester Ikea learned why a 9-year-old girl was buying stuffed panda bears from them in bulk ...

Panda Bear's 2007 masterpiece Person Pitch is on my desert island list of all-time favourite albums, and while I doubt Sinister Grift will ever occupy the same echelon, it's another compelling ...

Two weeks after its release, Sinister Grift has imprinted itself as one of the tightest, most illuminating, and intentionally crafted records in Panda Bear’s discography – and arguably the entire ...