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Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner

Review by Rory Gibb

Gold Panda's music is packed with subtle eddies and at times touches on the sublime, but can come across as frustratingly transient, like glistening smoke that drifts from a shisha before vanishing into thin air as it rapidly diffuses.»

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• 6/10 by gloomy666

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rough trade exclusive with 9 track bonus cd of digital only bonus tracks, b-sides, vinyl only releases and oddities. 'lucky shiner' is a beautiful, deeply personal, highly individual album. the glittering snap and pop of modern r&b is gold panda's starting point, but the album elegantly erupts in random directions, taking in minimal techno, ambient and folktronica. the record stutters out glitched hip hop beats, purrs with binary code and pulsates with a robotic heart. in gold panda's world, vinyl-static beats and heart-on-sleeve melancholia collide, and the results are breathtaking. the album was mixed by simian mobile disco's sonic veteran james shaw and recorded in two session spent in the shady retreat of the english countryside - at his aunt and uncle's essex home.
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