PANDA BEAR Animal Welfare
Interview with Noah Lennox
Noah Lennox, better known as Panda Bear, is one of the members of avant-folk ensemble Animal Collective. In just three years, the band have gone on to become one of the most revered outfits around. With a series of very different albums under their belt, Animal Collective have rapidly gained respect both in the press and with the public. Only a few weeks after Panda Bear released his first solo album, Young Prayer, and as he is about to unleash the first album recorded with Scott Mou, as Jane, while a new Animal Collective EP recorded with folk legend Vashti Bunyan is announced, we caught up with the man. Here, we enter his very personal universe, where poetry hides at the corner of every new sentence…

LEMON JELLY Jellied Drill
Lemon Jelly Live, Brixton Academy, Friday 11 March 2005
In just five years, Lemon Jelly have become a near-household name, yet Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen have managed to retain all the credibility that had them achieving cult status on the underground circles in London in the early days. Coming at the end of an extensive tour of the UK and Ireland to support the release of their latest album, Lemon Jelly played two dates in London, starting with a gig at the Brixton Academy.

AUTECHRE Untilted
One of the most influential and pioneering electronic bands of the last fifteen years, Autechre return with their eighth album. Expect sharp beats, acute sound design and raw emotions.

ALOG Miniatures
With their third album, Norwegian duo Alog continue to combine real instrumentations and electronic treatments, both analogue and digital, to create another dense soundtrack.

THE BOOKS Lost & Safe
Following two seminal records released in as many years, The Books return with a slightly more focused sound. Yet, this Massachusetts-based duo continues to create a joyful sonic chaos all along this third album.

BUSDRIVER Fear Of A Black Tangent
Follow-up to last year’s Cosmic Cleavage mini album, Fear Of A Black Tangent marks the welcome return of one of Los Angeles’s most talented hip-hop vocalists.

CARIBOU The Milk Of Human Kindness
Forced to change his stage name from Manitoba to Caribou only a few months ago, Dan Snaith returns more determined than ever with his third album. With The Milk Of Human Kindness, he develops further the psychedelic post-electronica he developed on his previous record.

CHEVRON Everything's Exactly The Same
Chevron is totally unpredictable, and if everything might be exactly the same around him, it certainly is not on this debut.

COLLEEN The Golden Morning Breaks
Two years ago, Colleen’s Cecile Schott presented, with her first album, a sublime piece of delicate electronic poetry. With The Golden Morning Breaks, she focuses on acoustic instruments and crafts one of the most fascinating records likely to be released this year.

DAEDELUS Exquisite Corpse
Already one of the most prominent alternative hip-hop producers to have emerged from the West Coast, Daedelus presents his latest opus, his first to be released jointly by Mush and Ninja Tune.

O.LAMM Hello Spiral
O.Lamm’s second album is a truly impressive exercise in digital processing, but it also shows intense levels of emotions conveyed through vocal contributions and clever use of acoustic instrumentation and field recordings.

STRØNEN / STORKLØKKEN Humcrush
When two incredibly talented and adventurous musicians come together, the result can only be of very high standard.

VENETIAN SNARES Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
Venetian Snares’s twelfth album is Aaron Funk’s most ambitious project. It also proves to be his most compelling record to date.

SWEET BILLY PILGRIM Stars Spill Out Of Cup
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE FEAT. VASHTI BUNYAN Prospect Hummer
THE IVYTREE / CHRIS SMITH Split #17
KONONO NO. 1 / THE DEAD C Split #18
CHRIST. Seeing & Doing
MINOTAUR SHOCK Vigo Bay
GLOBAL GOON Junior Glue / Pure Rock
CONRAD NEWHOLMES Conrad Newholmes