Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner review

My review of Gold Panda's Lucky Shiner LP, from the Independent (on Saturday just gone). This is one of my fave LPs of the year and it's proving to be a vintage year for electronic music in 2010 - Caribou, Flying Lotus, Gold Panda are stone cold classics.


Gold Panda: Lucky Shiner
Notown

One-man producer Gold Panda’s debut album Lucky Shiner somehow kneads loping hip-hoptronica, crackly deep house, angular synths, thrusting techno, micro-glitch, gurgling R&B, and other worldly melodies (possibly drawn from time living in Japan), into an exquisite, coherent record. Whether it’s mood (melancholy to sunny in a flash), arrangements (pumping house, shuffling hip hop), or influences (folktronica, Chicago house), LS is a twisting and turning, rewarding meander through the unpredictable.