View basket “Albion Doo-Wah…” has been added to your basket. 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 Martha Wainwright Sans Fusils Ni (Piaf’s Record) 45rpm Rock And Pop | V2 | Miscellaneous Released 5th December 2009 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Martha Wainwright Sans Fusils Ni (Piaf’s Record) 45rpm £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: V2 SKU: VVR723882 Formats: Miscellaneous Released Date: 5th December 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Biffy Clyro The Myth of The Happily Ever After Rock And Pop | Warner Records | 1LP, Includes CD Released 22nd October 2021 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Biffy Clyro The Myth of The Happily Ever After £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Records SKU: 0190296615030 Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 22nd October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Soundtrack Of Our Lives Golden Greats Vol.1 Rock And Pop | Little W Productions | 2LP Released 19th March 2011 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Soundtrack Of Our Lives Golden Greats Vol.1 £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Little W Productions SKU: LIW000011 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 19th March 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cosey Fanni Tutti Tutti Rock And Pop | Conspiracy International CIT | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 5th February 2019 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cosey Fanni Tutti Tutti £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Conspiracy International CIT SKU: CTITUTTILP2018 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 5th February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Future Of The Left The Peace & Truce of Future of The Left Rock And Pop | Prescriptions | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 7th April 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Future Of The Left The Peace & Truce of Future of The Left £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Prescriptions SKU: PRESPTLP3 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 7th April 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ready Set, The I Will Be Nothing Without Your Love Rock And Pop | Hopeless | 1LP Released 8th April 2016 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ready Set, The I Will Be Nothing Without Your Love £13.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Hopeless SKU: HR2221-1 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th April 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Black Crowes, The Happiness Bastards Rock And Pop | Silver Arrow | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th March 2024 £26.00 Select options Reserve View Reservations Black Crowes, The Happiness Bastards £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Silver Arrow Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 15th March 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Select options View Product Quick View Ben Folds So There Rock And Pop | New West | 2LP Released 24th September 2015 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ben Folds So There £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: New West SKU: NW5108 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 24th September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Eels Hombre Lobo (Limited Edition Reissue) Rock And Pop | E Works Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 17th March 2023 £22.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Eels Hombre Lobo (Limited Edition Reissue) £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: E Works Records SKU: EWORKS119 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 17th March 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Childhood Lacuna Rock And Pop | House Anxiety | 1LP, Includes 7", Includes Download Code Released 6th August 2014 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Childhood Lacuna £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: House Anxiety SKU: HA0019LPX Formats: 1LP, Includes 7", Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th August 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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