Gold Panda - Good Luck And Do Your Best (City Slang) 2016
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Gold Panda’s third full-length album sounds, feels, looks, and projects something different. The entire album revolves around the experience that came from visiting Japan, which included the collection of audio field recordings as well as accompanying visuals by photographer Laura Lewis – even the title, Good Luck And Do Your Best, comes from a rough translation of the Japanese expression “ganbatte, kudasai”. It’s an upbeat album, meaning that its positivism comes out as overwhelming delivering a multi-colored world that finds support in an amazing range of sounds. Gold Panda comes across as a more relaxed artist and that state of mind was translated into an electronic album that isn’t rough on the edges. It’s a very human album with a heart, a soul, and a very warm feeling.