Today Panda Bear releases his new single Ferry Lady, off his forthcoming new full-length Sinister Grift, due out February 28th via Domino. The track comes via a video by Danny Perez.
Ferry Lady follows the previously released single Defense, which features Cindy Lee on guitar and was hailed as “an inspired meeting of the minds and a thrilling teaser for Lennox’s forthcoming album” by Pitchfork.
Two decades since debuting as the masked-and-nicknamed drummer and vocalist of Animal Collective, Noah Lennox has led so many creative lives, navigated so many different styles, and been part of so many beloved recordings, that it can be easy to overlook just how consistent his creative vision has remained.
On Sinister Grift, Lennox’s first solo album in five years, he has returned with another statement that feels equally cumulative and unprecedented in his catalog. While his solo records have ranged from starkly intimate expressions of grief to colorful, electronic opuses, his music has never before sounded so warm and immediate. Working in his Lisbon, Portugal home studio with Animal Collective bandmate Josh “Deakin” Dibb, Lennox transforms Panda Bear into something resembling an old-school rock ensemble, playing nearly all the instruments himself and inviting kindred spirits into the process such as Cindy Lee, Spirit of the Beehive’s Rivka Ravede, and—for the first time on a Panda Bear solo album—each of his Animal Collective bandmates.
A UK tour has also been announced for June, with a date at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds on June 2nd.