Sinister Grift

metacritic

allmusic

pitchfork

Assisted by his Animal Collective bandmates, Noah Lennox’s latest solo LP is disarmingly laid-back. It might be his most straightforwardly beautiful record—and also his most emotionally complex.

thelineofbestfit

Panda Bear’s Sinister Grift is a desert-island getaway fit for troubling times

pastemagazine

Much like how Van Dyke Parks’ Song Cycle inserted bluegrass, incongruous orchestras and show-tune melodrama into conversations of out-of-fashion contemporary sensations, Animal Collective's Noah Lennox distorts the context of these 10 rock songs with elements of reggae, dub, hauntology, drone, cowboy chords, yesteryear pop centrifuge and dampened, diet ska.