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So, Pitchfork Media have just named Panda Bear # 1 of their Top 50 Albums of 2007!

To quote: “With its bright harmonies, loops that veer from lulling to ecstatic, and reverb that lends each sound a hazy twinkle, Person Pitch feels friendly and conversational, if beautifully streaked with psychedelic disorientation. But mostly, it just feels overwhelmingly positive and unfailingly generous.”

We couldn’t say it better… congratulations Noah! whoo! Panda Bear is # 3 on The Wire’s list too!

Also congrats to our man in Baltimore Dan Deacon for taking out the # 24 spot!

“Spiderman of the Rings is the most joyful album of 2007. And it wants to share that joy, to seep its DayGlo cartoon giddiness into the darkest recesses of black-clad hipsterdom. Why fold your arms when you can paint the town neon? Why pout when you can bounce? It’s impossible to feel like a mature adult listening to Dan Deacon’s hyperactive opus. The Woody Woodpecker cackling, the lyrics about “ghosts and cats and pigs and bats with brooms and bats and wigs and rats that play big dogs like queens and kings and everyone plays drums and sings,” the entire “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” aesthetic– this music zeros in on the basest childhood impulses towards things that are bright and shiny. In Deacon’s world, the drugs are replaced with Kool-Aid, everyone’s friends, everyone likes to dance, and nobody cares how they look. Naïve? Sure. Refreshing? Definitely.” – Pitchfork Media, Top 50 Albums of 2007