View basket “Standard Tuning” 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 Cardinal Black January Came Close Rock And Pop | Jump In Records | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 21st April 2023 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cardinal Black January Came Close £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Jump In Records SKU: CBLP1001 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 21st April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mungo Jerry Gold Rock And Pop | Demon Records | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd August 2019 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mungo Jerry Gold £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon Records SKU: DEMREC490 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 23rd August 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Howling Hex, The The Best Of The Howling Hex Rock And Pop | Drag City | 1LP Released 18th February 2013 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Howling Hex, The The Best Of The Howling Hex £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City SKU: DC545 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 18th February 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fixers Well Be The Moon Rock And Pop | Dolphin Love | 1LP Released 18th June 2012 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fixers Well Be The Moon £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Dolphin Love SKU: DOLPHINLOVE3 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 18th June 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Olivia Dean Messy Rock And Pop | EMI | 1LP Released 30th June 2023 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Olivia Dean Messy £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: EMI SKU: EMIV2093 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Matt's picks View Product Quick View Belinda Carlisle Runaway Horses (Half Speed Master) Rock And Pop | Demon | 180g, 1LP Released 3rd November 2023 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Belinda Carlisle Runaway Horses (Half Speed Master) £29.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon SKU: DEMREC1116 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 3rd November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Stevie Nicks Bella Donna – RSD Stores Exclusive Rock And Pop | Rhino | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 17th January 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stevie Nicks Bella Donna – RSD Stores Exclusive £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rhino SKU: 0603497848980 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 17th January 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Marianne Faithfull Come My Way Rock And Pop | Lilith | 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released 18th February 2013 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Marianne Faithfull Come My Way £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Lilith SKU: LR354LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 18th February 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Beat The Devil’s Tattoo Rock And Pop | Cobraside | Miscellaneous Released 11th March 2010 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Beat The Devil’s Tattoo £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Cobraside SKU: CSDLP1142 Formats: Miscellaneous Released Date: 11th March 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bee Gees Spirits Having Flown Rock And Pop | UMC | 1LP Released 26th June 2020 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bee Gees Spirits Having Flown £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 800565 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th June 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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