Gold Panda – You EP (Music Review)
By Andrew Duncan • Jul 15th, 2010 • Category: Categories, Electronic, Music Genres, ReviewsGold Panda
You EP
Ghostly International
Rating: 2.9 out of 5
Link: http://www.ghostly.com/releases/you-ep
Gold Panda’s debut delivers us with an introduction that is starkly glitched-out and electronically progressive in a non-progressive sense.
Only two originals mark this EP with the rest being remixes of “You” and a digital bonus remix of a song called “Killing Yourself On A Beach” which has nothing to do with the other original “Peaky Cups.”
I am probably making it more confusing than it really is so let me break it down. If it were not for the remixes, this EP would fail bases solely on the two originals presented. It’s the remixes of “You” that bring out the potential of the song and expand it into an expansive frame of mind. When you listen to the original, you feel like something is lacking. The vocal strobe effect turned-Hindu chant sounding gets old after a while and you feel like Gold Panda did not know exactly what direction to take it. The remixers know exactly where to take it.
But “Peaky Caps” is the highlight. It’s like watching water glisten in the sun. Your mind will wonder to all sorts of sensations as you let Gold Panda guide you with this downtempo ambient shangri la. If only they continue to do something in this realm, only the future will behold.
Andrew Duncan is a journalist who has migrated to the forces of academia. He has written for various publications including Chord, Heckler, Readyset...Aesthetic, and a vast array of alternative press contributions. When not roaming the streets of Indianapolis, he is either addicted to KXCI, making music, or striving to watch every film listed on IMDB.
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