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Young Prayer Review"Young Prayer" is not the recording that you might expect to hear from Panda Bear. Half of the prolific and enchanting Animal Collective, "Young Prayer" does not overwhelm the senses in the manner of the Animal Collective's "Sung Tongs" or "Spirit They're Gone Spirit". Animal Collective is the intersection of Brian Wilson's spiritual harmonies and the Stockhausen/Cage-meets-the-pop-song sonic dissonance of Can and the Velvet Underground. Found sounds, waves of distortion and compression, joyful dissonance, in-the-round singing, cut-and-paste sound collage. This is the sort of hypnotic music that your cats will hate you for.
The sounds of "Young Prayer" are unexpected even while they rest within the sonic footprint created by the Animal Collective. By unexpected I mean that "Young Prayer" is less reminiscent of the latest Animal Collective recording, "Sung Tongs," than of the reverbed high lonesome of My Morning Jacket's Jim James in "At Dawn". And high lonesome this album is; recorded in Panda Bear's childhood home, following the death of his father, this album, if nothing else, is a requiem.
"Young Prayer" is a stripped down recording, for all I know it might have been taped onto a four-track or a walkman. "Young Prayer" is the strumming of an acoustic guitar, it is the thin wail of Panda Bear, it is the rhythm of a hand-clap, it is the feeling of being alone in an empty house. "Young Prayer" is not a solo album in the sense of setting oneself apart from a previous musical endeavor (think of Lou Reed's "Transformer" following the dissolution of the Velvet Underground), it is the miles that pass from the Velvet Underground's freak-out on 'European Son' to the pleading of 'Jesus'. Or the boisterous surf-rock of the Beach Boys singing 'Surfin' Safari' in 1962 to the transcendental 'God Only Knows' in 1966. By these comparisons I mean that "Young Prayer" possesses a feeling that the Animal Collective recordings lack, and that is the feeling of loneliness and loss.
Young Prayer OverviewIn the midst of 2002, with much of his attention focused on his work with the Brooklyn-based ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, PANDA BEAR stepped aside to a more intimate space to reflect upon the death of his father.The resulting Young Prayer, often coming much closer to classical composition than to the noise/pop experimentations of the ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, is a collection of beautifully personal and introspective songs. Young Prayer, recorded in Panda Bear's childhood home by ANIMAL COLLECTIVE member DEAKIN and further produced by the mysterious ANIMAL COLLECTIVE brothers known as COME WINTER, guarantees a listening experience as interesting as any ANIMAL COLLECTIVE release thus far.A truly soulful album, Young Prayer is both sonically gorgeous and spiritually uplifting.--This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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