In listening to this, I was at once captivated by the melodies, and being a singer, found myself making things up on the spot. Why, I asked myself. 

The Pandas are amazing, my mind answered back.

Great work.
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More electronic than Explosions in the Sky, less electronic than Boards of Canada; more uplifting than Mogwai, less happy than Ilkae; the thing about the Pandas is that they just understand how to make good dreamy hybrid music.  They have this intrinsic ability to perfectly pair old shoegaze sounds with modern IDM and pour a ton of sentiment into both. The emotion is in the details: nostalgia chords shimmering in waves of clear but reverby guitar, eventually washing over a crunchy computer-engineered beat; a glockenspiel chiming in unison with a lazy-sad guitar line an octave below, both loping with a looping beat.   If other people's attempt to mix rock and electronic use a blowtorch to fuse the two together, then the Pandas hand-stitch their patterns, and and the color of thread is carefully considered.  The entire album is alive with creative thought.  Sprawl yourself out somewhere and let it melt you.  
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