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 bdrmm Standard Tuning Rock And Pop | Rock Action | 10", Etched, Single Released 19th April 2024 £16.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations bdrmm Standard Tuning £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rock Action SKU: ROCKACT163T Formats: 10", Etched, Single Released Date: 19th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Kylie Minogue Impossible Princess Rock And Pop | BMG | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 21st October 2022 £25.00 - £28.00 Select options Kylie Minogue Impossible Princess £25.00 - £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 21st October 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Strand Of Oaks Heal Rock And Pop | Dead Oceans | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 19th June 2014 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Strand Of Oaks Heal £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Dead Oceans SKU: DOC086LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 19th June 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Eva Cassidy American Tune Rock And Pop | Blix St | 180g, 1LP Released 25th November 2014 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eva Cassidy American Tune £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Blix St SKU: G8-10179 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 25th November 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ringo Starr Time Takes Time Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th August 2020 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ringo Starr Time Takes Time £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP572 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th August 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View New Order Low Life Rock And Pop | Warner Bros | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 28th August 2009 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders New Order Low Life £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Bros SKU: 0825646887989 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 28th August 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hauschka Abandoned City Rock And Pop | City Slang | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 12th March 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hauschka Abandoned City £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: City Slang SKU: SLANG50060LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th March 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Scott Walker Scott 2 Rock And Pop | UMC | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 18th October 2017 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Scott Walker Scott 2 £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 3728847 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 18th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Cat Mother And The All Night Newsboys Albion Doo-Wah… Americana / Country | Polydor | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 8th November 2022 £8.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Cat Mother And The All Night Newsboys Albion Doo-Wah… £8.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Polydor SKU: nn253055 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 8th November 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Neil Young Comes A Time Rock And Pop | Reprise | 180g, 1LP Released 18th August 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Neil Young Comes A Time £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Reprise SKU: 0093624917588 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 18th August 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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