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, released on February 8, 2019. It was preceded by the lead single "Dolphin", released along with its music video, and features collaborations with Chilean DJ Lizz and Portuguese singer

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Recording

The album was co-produced by Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) with

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, Portugal, where Lennox has lived since 2004. The last record the two worked on was Lennox's 2007 album ''

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''. Lennox also stated that he wanted to create music that would "feel familiar to a young person's ears", so worked with Santos to utilize production techniques of current music. ''

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'' stated that the sound of the record is different from Lennox's previous material and evident on "Dolphin", which contains a "single guitar, a faint bassline and some textured samples" around Lennox's vocals. Lennox himself called the album the "beginning of something new".

Track listing

Charts

References

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