Hey Panda High Llamas, The SKU: DC901 Barcode: 0781484090113 22.00 £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City Released Date: 29th March 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info High Llamas present ‘Hey Panda’ – a modern pop music / deep listening experience that could only issue forth from their personal quadrant of the galaxy. ‘Hey Panda’ projects soulfully through an enervating abstract of today’s popular music; the sound of the Llamas’ stately melodies and expressive ditties laid open – blissfully shattered – with drums and vocals hitting different, burning sounds and contemporary production twists pulling the ear at every turn. For the past few decades, High Llamas have trafficked in contemporary pop sounds directed toward the avant end of the spectrum as much as not. But here the message was clear. Llamas’ composer-in-residence Sean O’Hagan was determined to let go. ‘Hey Panda’ does just that, with a set of tunes reflecting on multiple levels how definitions change over the course of a lifetime, radiating an optimism derived from the diverse conundrums of today. Eight years since their last release, the pop musical ‘Here Come The Rattling Trees’, High Llamas have reinvented themselves again, mixing their peerless harmonic voice with what Sean regards as the ‘extraordinarily good’ production sounds of today on ‘Hey Panda’. Choosing not to look backward to former golden ages celebrated in earlier Llamas eras, Sean’s instead found himself opened up by the sounds of music brought into the house by his adult children and the sounds encountered at sessions for which he’s recently written arrangements. In addition to the more traditional contributions he made to The Coral’s ‘Sea of Mirrors’ album, plus his score for the Safdie brothers’ 2022 film production, ‘Funny Pages’, Sean’s drawn great inspiration through working with Fryars, Rae Morris, King Krule, Pearl and The Oyster, while also soaking up the work of Tierra Whack and Chicago’s Pivot Gang, and being cheered on from a distance by longtime admirer Tyler The Creator. Thus, Sean’s producer procedural has evolved again, with upgrades first detected in his 2019 solo effort, ‘Radum Calls, Radum Calls’. With a cover of Billie Eilish’s ‘Wish You Were Gay’ arranged for Bill Callahan and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s ‘Blind Date Party’, along with his COVID-era solo single, ‘The Wild Are Welcome’, Sean has levelled up again and again, leading to the delirious revelations of ‘Hey Panda’. ‘Hey Panda’’s wide reach is aided by two co-writes from Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, (who bonded with Sean over a shared love of gospel soul during writing sessions), guest vocals from Rae Morris and Sean’s daughter Livvy, production twists from Fryars and the stalwart, flexible presence of High Llamas. For all of its sense of departure, ‘Hey Panda’ is a movement in the High Llamas oeuvre that’s been a long time in development. Aspects of soul music were addressed at the time of ‘Can Cladders’; similarly, aspects of electronic dance music were in the mix in the late 90s, around the time of ‘Cold and Bouncy’. But nothing up to now has refocused the music of High Llamas so completely. Sharing the impulse of late-period Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, with further inspiration from Steve Lacy, SZA, Sault, No Name and Ezra Collective, among many others, Sean O’Hagan and High Llamas are living joyfully in the new and the now, with ‘Hey Panda’. Artist High Llamas, The Genre Rock And Pop Label Drag City Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Hey Panda Fall Off the Mountain Bade Amey Sisters Friends (featuring Rae Morris) How the Best Was Won (featuring Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) The Grade Yoga Goat Stone Cold Slow Toriafan Hungriest Man (featuring Bonnie "Prince" Billy) The Water Moves La Masse (featuring Fryars) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from High Llamas, The and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View High Llamas, The Here Come The Rattling Trees Rock And Pop | Drag City | 1LP Released 22nd January 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders High Llamas, The Here Come The Rattling Trees £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City SKU: DC638 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd January 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tyrannosaurus Rex Prophets, Seers And Sages… Rock And Pop | Universal Music | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 26th March 2015 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tyrannosaurus Rex Prophets, Seers And Sages… £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Universal Music SKU: 5353832 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 26th March 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Def Leppard Def Leppard Rock And Pop | Ear Music | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 26th October 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Def Leppard Def Leppard £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Ear Music SKU: 0210747EMU Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 26th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Follakzoid III Rock And Pop | Sacred Bones Records | 1LP Released 30th March 2015 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Follakzoid III £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sacred Bones Records SKU: SBR128LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th March 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wye Oak Civilian + Cut All the Wires: 2009 – 2011 Rock And Pop | Merge Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 22nd October 2021 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wye Oak Civilian + Cut All the Wires: 2009 – 2011 £29.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG770LPC1 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 22nd October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ian William Craig Slow Vessels Rock And Pop | 130701 | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 5th May 2017 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ian William Craig Slow Vessels £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 130701 SKU: LP1326 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 5th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bruce Springsteen Best Of Bruce Springsteen Rock And Pop | Sony | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 19th April 2024 £36.00 - £39.00 Select options Bruce Springsteen Best Of Bruce Springsteen £36.00 - £39.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sony Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 19th April 2024 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Frankiie Forget Your Head Rock And Pop | Paper Bag | 1LP Released 20th September 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Frankiie Forget Your Head £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Paper Bag SKU: PAPER126LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th September 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Aidan Knight Aidan Knight Rock And Pop | Full Time Hobby | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th August 2020 £19.00 - £20.00 Select options Aidan Knight Aidan Knight £19.00 - £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Full Time Hobby Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th August 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Eliza Shaddad The Woman You Want Rock And Pop | Rosemundy Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 16th July 2021 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eliza Shaddad The Woman You Want £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rosemundy Records SKU: FHP430021 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 16th July 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Talking Heads 77 Rock And Pop | Rhino | 180g, 1LP Released 26th June 2009 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Talking Heads 77 £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rhino SKU: 0081227988418 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 26th June 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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