Buoys (album)

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Buoys
Panda Bear - Buoys.png
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)
StudioLisbon, Portugal
Length31:00
Label Domino
Producer
Panda Bear chronology
A Day with the Homies
(2018)
Buoys
(2019)
Reset
(2022)
Singles from Buoys
  1. "Dolphin"
    Released: November 8, 2018
  2. "Token"
    Released: January 14, 2019
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 71/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Consequence of Sound B− [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Pitchfork 7.6/10 [5]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Buoys is the sixth studio album by American musician Panda Bear, released on February 8, 2019. It was preceded by the lead single "Dolphin", [7] released along with its music video, [8] and features collaborations with Chilean DJ Lizz and Portuguese singer Dino D'Santiago. [7]

Contents

Recording

The album was co-produced by Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) with Rusty Santos in Lisbon, Portugal, where Lennox has lived since 2004. [7] The last record the two worked on was Lennox's 2007 album Person Pitch . [9] Lennox also stated that he wanted to create music that would "feel familiar to a young person's ears", so worked with Santos to utilize production techniques of current music. [8] Rolling Stone stated that the sound of the record is different from Lennox's previous material and evident on "Dolphin", which contains a "single guitar, a faint bassline and some textured samples" around Lennox's vocals. Lennox himself called the album the "beginning of something new". [8]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Dolphin"3:41
2."Cranked"3:19
3."Token"3:37
4."I Know I Don't Know"2:51
5."Master"4:04
6."Buoys"2:34
7."Inner Monologue"4:37
8."Crescendo"3:10
9."Home Free"3:07
Total length:31:00

Charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
Portuguese Albums (AFP) [10] 40
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [11] 44
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [12] 7
US Top Album Sales (Billboard) [13] 60
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [14] 5
US Vinyl Albums (Billboard) [15] 8

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