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Noah Benjamin Lennox (born July 17, 1978), also known by his moniker Panda Bear, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and co-founding member of the band
Animal Collective Animal Collective is an American experimental pop band formed in Baltimore, Maryland. Its members consist of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Geologist (Brian Weitz), and Deakin (Josh Dibb). The band's work is characterized ...
. In addition to his work with that group, Lennox has released six solo LPs since 1999, with his influential 2007 album '' Person Pitch'' inspiring numerous subsequent acts. His subsequent albums ''
Tomboy A tomboy is a term for a girl or a young woman with masculine qualities. It can include wearing androgynous or unfeminine clothing and actively engage in physical sports or other activities and behaviors usually associated with boys or men. W ...
'' (2011) and ''
Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper ''Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper'' is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox). Coproduced by Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3, it was released on January 9, 2015, by the Domino Recording Company. ''Panda Bear Mee ...
'' (2015) both reached the ''Billboard'' 200. Lennox was primarily raised in
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, Maryland, where he sang
tenor A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The lo ...
in his high school chamber choir, and studied piano and cello. The name "Panda Bear" derived from his habit of drawing pandas on his early
mixtape A mixtape (alternatively mix-tape, mix tape or mixed tape) is a compilation of music, typically from multiple sources, recorded onto a medium. With origins in the 1980s, the term normally describes a homemade compilation of music onto a cassette ...
s as a teenager. He and the other members of Animal Collective began collaborating in the late 1990s. He has also collaborated with other artists, including
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on their 2013 single "
Doin' It Right "Doin' It Right" is a song written and performed by French electronic music duo Daft Punk and American musician Panda Bear of the band Animal Collective. It is a track on Daft Punk's fourth studio album ''Random Access Memories'' (2013), and w ...
" and
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on the 2022 album '' Reset''. Since 2004, he has lived in
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.


Early life

Lennox grew up in the
Roland Park Roland Park is a community located in Baltimore, Maryland. It was developed between 1890 and 1920 as an upper-class streetcar suburb. The early phases of the neighborhood were designed by Edward Bouton and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. History J ...
section of
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, Maryland, and attended
Waldorf School of Baltimore The Waldorf School of Baltimore is a private, co-education school that was established in 1971 under the name New Morning School. It is located in the Cold Spring Newtown community, Baltimore, Maryland. It adopted the Waldorf curriculum in 1972 a ...
through 8th grade, and Kimberton Waldorf School in Chester County, Pennsylvania, for high school. His family moved frequently during his early years, owing to his father's studies to be an orthopedic surgeon. As a youth, he played sports, mainly soccer and basketball. His brother, Matt Lennox (whom the Animal Collective song " Brother Sport" is directed at), was a leading player on the high school basketball team and Noah was also a team member, playing as
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. Lennox has also stated in interviews that he enjoyed drawing a lot as a teenager, especially pandas, and later started drawing pandas on his early mixtapes. He also studied piano until he was eight, then cello, and later on he sang
tenor A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The lo ...
in his high school
chamber choir A chamber choir is a small or medium-sized choir of roughly 8 to 40 singers (occasionally called 'chamber singers'), typically singing classical or religious music in a concert setting. (This is distinct from e.g. a church choir, which sings in rel ...
. Though he and his family have never been very religious, Lennox briefly attended
Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...
, where he majored in religion because of his interest in "the concept of God".


Career


Animal Collective

As a teen, Lennox began listening to electronic music styles such as
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and
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, and artists such as
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, all of which became a major influence on his later work. He recorded and performed music solo and with friends. Lennox started using the name "Panda Bear" because he drew pictures of
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for the artwork of his recordings. Lennox had been friends with Deakin (Josh Dibb) since the second grade. Deakin introduced Lennox to his high school friends
Avey Tare David Michael Portner (born April 24, 1979), also known by his moniker Avey Tare, is a musician and songwriter who co-founded the American experimental pop band Animal Collective. He has released three solo albums, as well as three collaborative ...
(Dave Portner) and
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(Brian Weitz). For years, the four of them swapped homemade recordings, shared musical ideas and performed in different group configurations. Lennox, along with Deakin moved to New York in 2000. The band then became more collaborative in nature and they finally settled on the name "Animal Collective". Since the 2007 releases of Panda Bear's '' Person Pitch'' and Animal Collective's ''
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'', he has focused more on using samplers and other electronics in their shows. He has named
Black Dice Black Dice is an American experimental noise music band based in Brooklyn, New York and consisting of brothers Bjorn and Eric Copeland along with Aaron Warren. Formed in 1997, the group was initially inspired by hardcore and noise rock, but subse ...
as a major influence stating "Black Dice took us on our first tour and I feel like the wisest things I've learned about being in a band I learned by watching them." He said he looks to ''Black Dice'' "as a model for a band... I feel like as a band, I can't speak for the other guys
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but certainly for myself, like I modelled the way I approach to everything with the band watching the way ''Black Dice'' did it." In addition to singing, Lennox played drums and occasionally guitar in Animal Collective's live performances. He cites
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as the biggest influence on his drumming style; for his drumming work on Animal Collective's 2022 album ''
Time Skiffs ''Time Skiffs'' is the eleventh studio album by American experimental pop band Animal Collective, released on February 4, 2022, on Domino. It is their first album in six years and marks the return of band member Deakin, who sat out of the recordi ...
'', Lennox cited
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's drummers, especially
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, as influences.


Solo work

Lennox's early musical influences included
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styles, and his solo work has been variously characterized as experimental pop, electronic,
bedroom pop Lo-fi (also typeset as lofi or low-fi; short for low fidelity) is a music or production quality in which elements usually regarded as imperfections in the context of a recording or performance are present, sometimes as a deliberate choice. The ...
, neo-psychedelic pop, and
indie music Independent music (also commonly known as indie music or simply indie) is music that is produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, DIY ethic, do-it-yourself approach to r ...
. ''
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'' called him a "
psychedelic pop Psychedelic pop (or acid pop) is pop music that contains musical characteristics associated with psychedelic music. Developing in the late 1960s, elements included " trippy" features such as fuzz guitars, tape manipulation, backwards recording, ...
trailblazer." Lennox's debut album ''
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'' was released in 1999 on Soccer Star Records. After focusing more on touring and recording with
Animal Collective Animal Collective is an American experimental pop band formed in Baltimore, Maryland. Its members consist of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Geologist (Brian Weitz), and Deakin (Josh Dibb). The band's work is characterized ...
, he released the follow-up ''
Young Prayer ''Young Prayer'' is the second solo album by American experimental pop musician Panda Bear, released on September 28, 2004. It follows his debut solo album ''Panda Bear'' (1999). It is his first since co-founding Animal Collective. Background Non ...
'' in 2004 and the highly acclaimed third solo album '' Person Pitch'' in 2007. Of his songwriting style, Lennox says "I get impatient writing songs, I can't spend more than a couple of hours before I get frustrated. So I got to kind of spit it out real fast. My favorite songs are the ones where I worked really really fast on, when it comes all out in like two hours or something." Panda Bear's fourth album, ''Tomboy'', was released April 12, 2011, on his own label, Paw Tracks. He started performing material from ''Tomboy'' on December 5, 2008, at a show with
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in Miami, Florida. During a brief European tour in January 2010, he played three shows consisting almost entirely of new material. On March 7, 2010, a tour setlist with titles for ten of the new songs was posted on Panda Bear's MySpace blog. He also played
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in 2010. The single "Tomboy" and the b-side "Slow Motion" were released in July 2010. It was announced in August that singles "You Can Count on Me" and "Alsatian Darn" would be released via Domino on September 28. The limited 500 copies of "You Can Count On Me" sold out in less than a day. The single "Last Night at the Jetty" was released December 2010. The single "Surfer's Hymn" was released March 28, 2011. His song "Comfy In Nautica" appears in ABC's 2010 global warming movie ''
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''. Lennox was chosen by
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of
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to perform at the
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festival he planned to curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England. However, Lennox was unable to play when the event was rescheduled to March 2012. In June 2013, Panda Bear performed a set of all new material at ATP. In October 2014, the ''Mr Noah'' EP was released, featuring four new songs. The full album, ''
Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper ''Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper'' is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox). Coproduced by Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3, it was released on January 9, 2015, by the Domino Recording Company. ''Panda Bear Mee ...
'', was released in January 2015. In 2018, Lennox released the vinyl-only ''A Day With the Homies'' EP, a collection of five songs heavily influenced by house + bass music. Included on the packaging of the release were hidden URLs that pointed to samples used on the EP. In February 2019, he released the LP ''Buoys'', featuring production work by longtime collaborator Rusty Santos. It was preceded by the single "Dolphin".


Outside musical collaborations

Lennox plays in the band
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and Together with DJ Scott Mou. He has also performed on tracks with Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter), Ducktails ''(
Matt Mondanile Matthew A. Mondanile is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the American indie rock band Real Estate (band), Real Estate, with whom he recorded three studio albums, and for his solo music ...
'', best known as the former lead guitarist of the American
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band
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) and electronic musicians
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and
Pantha du Prince Hendrik Weber (born 1975 in Bad Wildungen, Germany),Doin' It Right "Doin' It Right" is a song written and performed by French electronic music duo Daft Punk and American musician Panda Bear of the band Animal Collective. It is a track on Daft Punk's fourth studio album ''Random Access Memories'' (2013), and w ...
" on the 2013
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album ''
Random Access Memories ''Random Access Memories'' is the fourth studio album by the French electronic music, electronic duo Daft Punk, released on 17 May 2013 through Columbia Records. The album pays tribute to late Music history of the United States in the 1970s, 197 ...
''. The album won Daft Punk the
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in 2014, making Panda Bear a co-winner. Almost a decade later, Lennox worked with previous Daft Punk collaborators
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and
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on their new duo's debut single, "Step By Step", in 2022.


Personal life

In 2004, Lennox moved from New York City to
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, Portugal. He first visited the city for a vacation following a long
Animal Collective Animal Collective is an American experimental pop band formed in Baltimore, Maryland. Its members consist of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Geologist (Brian Weitz), and Deakin (Josh Dibb). The band's work is characterized ...
tour in 2003. Lennox says about Lisbon: "Since I got off the airplane here
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I had a good feeling about this place." He met his wife, the fashion designer Fernanda Pereira, there; after visiting each other in Lisbon and New York, Lennox decided to move to Europe because he also felt "connected to the European way of life", considering himself as a "slow moving kind of person" and Lisbon as a "slow moving kind of place". Lennox and Pereira have a daughter, Nadja, born in 2005 and a son, born in June 2010. In 2007, he and Pereira collaborated on a line of sweatshirts called ''2nd Things''.


Musical equipment

;Synthesizers *
Minimoog Voyager The Minimoog Voyager or Voyager is a monophonic analog synthesizer, designed by Robert Moog and released in 2002 by Moog Music. The Voyager was modeled after the classic Minimoog synthesizer that was popular in the 1970s, and is meant to be a s ...
*
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; Digital samplers *
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*
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* Boss SP-303 "Dr. Sample" *
Teenage Engineering OP-1 The Teenage Engineering OP-1 is a synthesizer, sampler and sequencer designed and manufactured by the Stockholm-based company Teenage Engineering. The OP-1 is Teenage Engineering's first product; it was released in 2011 following an introduction ...
;Drum machine/synthesizer * JoMoX Xbase 999


Discography


Studio albums


Extended plays


Singles

*" I'm Not/Comfy in Nautica" (September 22, 2005, UUAR) *"Bros" (December 4, 2006,
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) *" Carrots" (January 23, 2007, Paw Tracks) *"
Take Pills "Take Pills" is the fourth and final single to be released by Panda Bear from his 2007 album Person Pitch. The 7″ single was released by Paw Tracks, in limited quantity of 1,000 copies. While the title of this single may appear to be an advocat ...
" (June 19, 2007, Paw Tracks) *"
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" (July 13, 2010, Paw Tracks) *" You Can Count on Me" (October 19, 2010, Domino) *"
Last Night at the Jetty "Last Night at the Jetty" is the third single to be released by Panda Bear from ''Tomboy''. It was released December 13, 2010 by FatCat Records. The sleeve was designed by Scott Mou, Panda Bear's collaborator from the group Jane. The B side label ...
" (December 13, 2010, FatCat Records) *"
Surfer's Hymn "Surfer's Hymn" is the final single from Panda Bear's fourth solo album, Tomboy. It was released as a limited edition 7" by Kompakt on March 28, 2011 and later released digitally. In suit with the other three, the single features artwork by Noah' ...
" (March 28, 2011, Kompakt) *"
Mr Noah ''Mr Noah'' is the first extended play, EP by American recording artist Panda Bear (musician), Panda Bear, released in 2014. The title track was later featured on the 2015 full-length album ''Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper'', while the other thr ...
" (October 23, 2014, Domino) *"Boys Latin" (December 15, 2014, Domino) *"
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" (August 20, 2015, Domino) *"Dolphin" (November 8, 2018, Domino) *"Token" (January 14, 2019, Domino) *"Playing the Long Game" (October 9, 2019, Domino)


Remixes

*"Boneless" (remix of
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song "Boneless") on "Boneless" 7" *"As Young As Yesterday" (remix of Korallreven song "As Young As Yesterday") on "As Young As Yesterday" 12" (2011) *"Cheap Treat (Panda Bear Version)" (remix of
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song "Cheap Treat") on "Remixes" EP. *"Melody Unfair (Panda Bear Remix)" on ''Essence of Eucalyptus'' by
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*"Never Ending Game (Panda Bear Remix)" on ''Bigger House'' by Angel Du$t


Appearances

*One untitled track on Visionaire 53 – Sound (December 1, 2007, Visionaire Publishing, LLC) *"Anna" on the album '' East of Eden'' by Taken by Trees (September 7, 2009) *"
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" on the album ''
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'' by Atlas Sound (October 20, 2009) *"Stick to My Side" on the album ''
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'' by
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" (bonus track) on the album '' Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics'' by Ducktails (January 18, 2011) *"Atiba Song" composed music for a skateboarding montage directed by Atiba Jefferson and Ty Evans. The track was initially created by Atiba, then finished by Panda Bear. *"The Preakness" on the cassette tape ''Keep + Animal Collective'' (March 2011, Keep) *"Things Fall Apart" on the album '' Dedication'' by
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(July 11, 2011) *"Pyjama" on the album ''Tracer'' by
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(August 21, 2012) *"
Doin' It Right "Doin' It Right" is a song written and performed by French electronic music duo Daft Punk and American musician Panda Bear of the band Animal Collective. It is a track on Daft Punk's fourth studio album ''Random Access Memories'' (2013), and w ...
" on the album ''
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'' by
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(May 17, 2013) *"Time (Is)", "Binz", "Beltway" and "I'm a Witness" on the album ''
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'' by
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(March 1, 2019) *"I Don't Need a Crowd" on the ''I Don't Need a Crowd/The One That Got Away'' 7" by Paul Maroon (March 15, 2019) * "Studie" on the album ''Anicca'' by
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(September 18, 2019) * "Gameday Continues" on the album ''HBCU Gameday'' by Sporting Life. (January 27, 2020) * "Just a Little Piece of Me" on the album ''All Things Being Equal '' by Sonic Boom. (June 5, 2020) * "Step By Step" by Braxe +
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(March 29, 2022)


References


External links


Interview from 2008 on Onhiat.usOla's Kool Kitchen on Radio 23 – Panda Bear Live, Primavera 2010
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