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Panda Bear
Released 2004

Track 1
02:57
477 plays

Track 2
02:03
349 plays

Track 4
05:12
335 plays

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- 1
- Track 1
- 02:57
- 477 plays

- 2
- Track 2
- 02:03
- 349 plays

- 3
- Track 3
- 01:06
- 325 plays

- 4
- Track 4
- 05:12
- 335 plays

- 5
- Track 5
- 02:59
- 309 plays

- 6
- Track 6
- 03:09
- 276 plays

- 7
- Track 7
- 03:12
- 276 plays

- 8
- Track 8
- 02:48
- 250 plays

- 9
- Track 9
- 04:45
- 279 plays

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album review

Composed and recorded following the death of Panda Bear's father, it is perhaps no surprise that Young Prayer comes off as a musical eulogy. But it is nothing like a wild outpouring of emotion. There is no tearing of hair or gnashing of teeth here. Rather, the short album is a restrained lamentation, a controlled elegiac mediation on the death of a loved one. The grief has settled in to stay, and it is reflected upon from a slight distance now. Panda Bear wordlessly but somberly moans in a falsetto through much of the album, setting a mood of crystalline bereavement. Descending vocal arpeggios echo through hollow halls, while erratic but tunefully strummed guitar and loose, mantra-like piano playing maintain an ethereal fragility. The most upbeat of the nine untitled songs is a hand-clapping, foot-stomping chant-in-the-round that ends the A side. A song that, despite it's relative joyousness compared to the rest of the album, still recalls a funeral march more than a hootenanny. Young Prayer, however, isn't a morbid work. It seems to come from the point of view of acceptance, and can be seen as the sober and mournful flipside to the hyperactively gleeful Sung Tongs. ~ Jason Nickey, All Music Guide