Noah Lennox has spent the higher a part of the previous half-decade as an all-star collaborator, demonstrating simply how adaptable his grown-up choirboy falsetto may be over lo-fi, French contact, and mariachi. It’s no shock, then, that his first solo outing as Panda Bear in 5 years is in regards to the necessity of getting somebody in your nook. That the “somebody” in query occurs to be a white-hot Cindy Lee is each an impressed assembly of the minds and an exciting teaser for Lennox’s forthcoming album, Sinister Grift. Each artists are obsessives identified for chiseling their music all the way down to essentially the most minute element, and whereas “Protection” foregoes essentially the most glamorous potential (Panda Bear with a cat eye, Lee & Lennox do Hazlewood/Sinatra), the duo ship a stable piece of indie rock craftsmanship. Over a sturdy ground thump, Lennox sings wearily about falling onerous out of an unstable partnership earlier than Lee blazes in with a pyrotechnic solo that Tuareg guitar wizards like Mdou Moctar would approve of. Even at his most dejected and self-incriminating, Panda Bear has a transparent residence in Lee’s music.
