Douglas Martin knows what you did last summer at the Jetty.
In the Year of Our Lord 2014, Noah is still the humble shepherd forced with the task of leading whatever we refer to as “indie music” to the fabled promised land. Whereas most of Tomboy felt more subdued and its best moments either distant or filled with a dark sense of urgency, the lead salvo from Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper is joyous in a way Person Pitch was, but also features a melted, quasi-futuristic quality reminiscent of Black Moth Super Rainbow or Tobacco (or, if you’d rather, the substantially overvalued latter-period material of the group he sprang from, Animal Collective). All of this plus a groove it would be safe to say very few people knew Lennox had in him, which will most certainly hotshot “Mr. Noah” into the party playlist or DJ set of virtually every weird friend you have.
