Panda Bear, at Williamsburg Music Hall

Following beachy, lo-fi act Ducktails, Panda Bear’s Noah Lennox treated the audience of 550 die-hard fans at the sold out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Sunday night to an immersive audiovisual experience. With two projectors facing outward washing the audience in a changing spectrum of colored light and trippy film clips—interspersed with mock-iTunes visualizer psychadelic color drips projected behind him—Lennox opened up his set with the slow-burner “You Can Count On Me” before playing the album in its entirety.

Lennox was joined on stage by Tomboy producer Sonic Boom (Peter Kember of Spacemen 3 and Spectrum) who took over the abundant knob-turning duties while Mr. Bear manned the one mic and guitar set-up. The duo played continuously, filling in the gaps between album songs with long drones making the set the kind of long-format wall of sound journey Panda Bear is known for creating. Lennox finished off his aural assault with Person Pitch’s 2007 pulsing crowd-pleaser “Comfy In Nautica,” engaging the crowd in one collective head nod before waking us all from our audio-induced joyful stupor with the show’s terminal utterance, “Thanks, everybody.” More, please, Mr. Lennox. We’re hooked.

Ducktails

Panda Bear

Text Abbye Churchill
Photography Sandra Kang

KEYWORDS: Ducktails, Music, Noah Lennox, Panda Bear