Pandatone \"Happy Together\" torrent

320 rip of Pandatone's "Happy Together" Album. featuring guest vocals by Julianna Barwick. here's some of the reviews. worth check out.

earplug.
Subtly evoking the spirit of fellow avant-acoustic blippers like the Books and Múm, Pandatone’s criminally overlooked Happy Together is at once a stripped-down, post-toytronica masterwork and a minimalist pop endeavor awash in warm, ambient atmospheres. On album opener “The Last to Remain,” thick bell tones embrace stuttering, stunted acoustic guitar riffs, as guest vocalist Julianna Barwick’s thin-throated croon traverses the long stretch of thickened air between her mouth and the microphone. Glitched-out edges are smoothed to nubs by a mess of strings, broken beats, and haunting tones. While other Barwick-adorned tunes like “I Forgot If We Dreamed” and “Together and Lonely” are similarly broody, “We Fucking Love You” humbly ups the intensity, setting her cooled-out croon against the record’s first truly shattered percussion. For its part, fellow album highlight “Did It Happen” lands like a Radiohead B-side, with warm, melodic textures wrapping around the cool Thom Yorke-isms of project mastermind Panda. -AP

xlr8r.
Three years since his debut, Lemons and Limes, on the now-defunct Neo Ouija label, New York’s Pandatone (a.k.a. Trevor Sias) releases Happy Together on his own Music Related imprint. Expanding on the processed guitar compositions of Lemons and Limes, Happy Together features spare field recordings, carefully placed synths, and hushed vocals from Julianna Barwick and Sias himself. “The Last To Remain” opens the record with subdued layers of acoustic guitar and Barwick’s comforting voice. Elsewhere, “The Fog of Memory” recalls early Greg Davis, while “We Fucking Love You” channels a quieter Kid A. By carefully balancing chopped experimentation with lush tones and accessible songwriting, Happy Together has something for obsessive audiophiles and casual pop fans alike.

other music.
Following a three year hiatus, Pandatone is back with Happy Together on his own Music Related imprint, (the same label that brought us Shugo Tokumaru’s brilliant Night Piece). As with those releases, subtle and organic electronica is the order of the day as Pandatone utilizes acoustic guitars, understated male and female vocals, samples and field recordings to create eight enchanting compositions. However, what makes this album stand out is Pandatone’s urge to experiment. There are lots of little twists and turns to these songs, as he’s not afraid to throw in some tape hiss and slightly dissonant elements. This is a guaranteed winner if you’ve enjoyed works by Mum, Psapp, Tujiko Noriko, and maybe even Portishead.

vital weekly.
Behind Pandatone is the man who also runs the label Music Related, but his debut album was three years ago on Neo Ouija and his main interest back then was ‘computer processing of his acoustic guitar’. I must admit I didn’t hear that record, but the guitar is still a present feature on ‘Happy Together’, but it’s expanded with the use of voices, male and female, slow trip like rhythms, samples, field recordings and a synth here and there. Maybe the ’slow trip rhythms’ may already give a clue what this is about: slow trip hop like music, and especially when there is the voice Julianna Barwick, thoughts go out to Portishead or Antenne. But that’s only half the story. The music part is actually quite interesting. Pandatone loves sound: from real instruments, but also found sound, tape-hiss, contact microphones scratching the surface and the eight tracks may form a unity in approach towards composition, there is enough small, experimental things happening all around which make this a highly enjoyable CD. At times the influence of Tujiko Noriko can be heard - both in music and the use of voice - but in his songs Pandatone is much tighter and more concise than the sometimes somewhat free formed songs of Noriko. Melancholically music for sure, but with a nice sunlight coming in. It’s a very nice CD, subtle, emotional and just great. (FdW)