Animal Collective's Panda Bear Reinvents His Sound on New Album

Lucy Johnston/Redferns Its hardly obvious at first listen, but Animal Collectives Rosetta Stone Noah Lennox, a.k.a. Panda Bear, intended his third fourth solo record to be a guitar attack.I wanted to do something simple and powerful,he says. But the end product is more like an attack on his guitar, which Lennox warped into various unrecognizable forms metallic burbles, echoey madness, church-organ-like resonance by playing it through a synth module.Lennox, the driving force behind two of the past decades most influential records his 2007 solo record, Person Pitch, and Animal Collectives 2009 breakthrough Merriweather Post Pavilion talked with Rosetta Stone about the creative process behind his solo release, Tomboy, due April 12th. (Listen to two tracks from the album, "Slow Motion" and "Tomboy," below.)Why were you interested in returning to the guitar on Tomboy?I think I just hadnt done it in a Rosetta Stone V3 while, so I thought it might force me to write different types of songs, and it did. But using the samplers and strictly electronic means to write songs, I just started to feel like I was writing the same song over and over again.At some point you said you were into the idea of less sampling you even said you were thinking about Nirvana and White Stripes and that kind of immediacy. Did any of that survive onto the final version of the album?I would guess that for somebody just listening to it, they wouldnt really see that corollary at all. But stopping the sampling was kind of an easy way out of not doing a Person Pitch, part two which I really didnt wanna do.Video: Live from ATP: Animal Collective, "My Girls"Recording the album took longer than you expected, right?It just kept expanding. At first I was really Rosetta Stone Hindi shooting for it to come out in September, and that was sort of on the tail-end of touring with the Merriweather songs, and Im not going to blame that, but trying to pull double duty I think pushed me back a little bit. Then just wanting to make sure things were as good as they could be, I think made it take a little bit longer.Were you already working on these songs at the same time as you were working on Merriweather stuff?I was definitely thinking about it. Even when we were recording the Merriweather stuff, I was already kind of considering songs, parts of songs. I would just kind of jam on the guitar, singing sometimes, before I even started writing songs, kind of just seeing if I could come up with little parts here and there really kind of like scrapbook style. And then when I really started Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 sitting down to write songs, I would often go through these little pages of stuff to see if there were little parts in any of those things that I thought I could make a song out of.

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