Buoys
by Panda Bear
  • Record Label: Domino
  • Release Date: Feb 8, 2019
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
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  1. The 405
    Feb 8, 2019
    30
    Mostly unlistenable. ... What has previously been a steady but inoffensive deterioration in Lennox’s music has now slid to (what one can only hope is) the bottom of the trough. No track here could be accused of attempting to engage with either the audience or work with recent exciting stylistic developments in alternative music.

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User Score
6.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 40 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 40
  3. Negative: 5 out of 40
  1. NicoleTrella
    Sep 5, 2022
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. I have spent 25 years as a touring musician and am seriously dating myself (i started at 14) and I've never left a music review out of a combination of feeling the need to review perfectyl and coming up short. But I am recently going through gender re-assigment and its Making me reconsider a lot of life decisions. What does.this have to do with a random Panda Bear album i just bought. It was my first album post surgery and I understand the push back that its repetitive, simplistic, but thats what i love. Im a film composer, i iusually love bombastic scores, vit recovering from surgery, this album feels like a nice warm blanket Its not.trying too.hard.to be anything I ve faced losing friendd, family, work, etc just to be who i am and this album.feels like like a warm friends telling me that it will be ok somehow



    Ive been so scared.to.be me..but i refuse to cower any longer. What does    … Full Review »
  2. mdlee
    Aug 28, 2020
    8
    I find myself constantly coming back to this album, its rhythm carries you and it's sincerity holds up over time.
  3. spenceryang8
    Feb 22, 2019
    6
    Panda Bear’s latest solo outing sees his psychedelic brand of surreal folk submerged under an ocean of cascading delays and nautical vibes.Panda Bear’s latest solo outing sees his psychedelic brand of surreal folk submerged under an ocean of cascading delays and nautical vibes.

    FAV TRACKS: CRANKED, TOKEN, BUOYS, INNER MONOLOGUE, HOME FREE

    LEAST FAV TRACK: DOLPHIN    … Full Review »
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