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Urban Tulsa Weekly
New Tunes: Album Review of The Panda Resistance
Organum Release
The Panda Resistance’s self-titled debut EP is an EP in name only. The seven-track disc approaches proper album status as it flourishes for more than 40 minutes, crammed airtight with melody, rhythm and texture.
The trio of musicians is obviously well versed in their craft from even a casual listen. The super-imposition of jazz, funk and minimalism over a canvas of instrumental indie rock is both tasteful and well calculated. On the album, homage is paid to a diverse cast of unusual suspects such as Philip Glass, Tortoise and Mogwai, while retaining the sense of identity that the band has accumulated in their short time together.
The largely instrumental collection of music seems to be exercises in musical ideas; dreamscapes painted under varying emotional influences that pivot and shift in unexpected ways. The material teeters back and forth between dreamy and dark, between furious and gentle, from the melodic to the abstract–often in the same song.
The compositions begin to feel like their own little journeys, starting with one concrete musical or melodic theme and ending much farther down the road.
CM Rodriguez, UTW
the album is for sale on itunes, digstation.com, a lot of other great online stores like cdbaby.com etc. , you can also buy one at shades of brown coffee in tulsa, Ida red in tulsa, and Guestroom Records in Norman, OK
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