Gold Panda: Lucky Shiner | CD review

(Notown)Despite the influence of many noisy sub-genres and effects as discomfiting as vinyl crackle turned into drumbeats, the debut album by Gold Panda is an almost soothing 40-odd minutes of Warpish instrumental tracks. It's immediately likable: opening track You consists mainly of two quickfire samples of the words "you" and "me" duelling over a hip-hop beat, and Parents opens with a sample of his grandmother asking for help with a wheelbarrow. Recorded while dogsitting for an auntie and uncl...

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