Post by IhateMana on Feb 23, 2022 4:50:45 GMT
Noah Benjamin Lennox (17 July 1978)
Associated Acts: Animal Collective (2000 [retroactively] 2003 - present), Jane (2002 - 2007)
Vocal Range: F2 - B♭5
{Vocal Summary}Animal Collective epitomise how music consumption changed during the internet boom. While they are probably best known to the current generation who are discovering music outside of the radio for the first time via 4chan or, more specifically, Reddit for Merriweather Post Pavilion, a Certified Meme Album™, AnCo have a storied history with internet music culture and the US east coast indie-music scene. Formed unofficially in 2000, and then intentionally as a band in 2003, the band members all named themselves after four universally recognisable animals: Panda Bear, uhhh, Avey Tare… Geologist?? And whatever the fuck a Deakin is. Much like another animal, AnCo are sonic chameleons, experimenting variously with styles of indietronica and freak-folk, with a peculiar interest in extreme frequencies. Fans of the band in the early 2000s found each other through various message boards and file-sharing sites, and the band's fanbase have a Queen-tier obsession with collecting volumes of bootleg live performances.
Big Poppa Pandie, real name Panda Bear… I think? Wait… fuck, no, Noah Lennox, is in my opinion the most pleasant to listen to of the three voice boys in AnCo (sorry Deak). His intonation appears to be much cleaner than Portner's and has a lighter timbre. He's obsessed with reverb and hard consonants on the end of lines (which are his tell if you get really stuck splitting him from Avey; you'd never confuse either vocalist for Deakin). His falsetto is quite airy. His lower register is fair, though massively under-utilised, with Portner usually occupying the lower end in harmonies. While his timbre is nicer, his actual vocal melodies can be a little underwhelming and familiar the more of him you hear.
Big Poppa Pandie, real name Panda Bear… I think? Wait… fuck, no, Noah Lennox, is in my opinion the most pleasant to listen to of the three voice boys in AnCo (sorry Deak). His intonation appears to be much cleaner than Portner's and has a lighter timbre. He's obsessed with reverb and hard consonants on the end of lines (which are his tell if you get really stuck splitting him from Avey; you'd never confuse either vocalist for Deakin). His falsetto is quite airy. His lower register is fair, though massively under-utilised, with Portner usually occupying the lower end in harmonies. While his timbre is nicer, his actual vocal melodies can be a little underwhelming and familiar the more of him you hear.
Significant High Notes
B♭5 ("Covered in Frogs" No info on this, but it's the best video on the internet)
G♯5 ("Winters Love" Live at Gardners Art Centre 10/05/2003)
F♯5 ("We Tigers")
F5 ("Mouth Wooed Her" Live at some random ass house party in Brooklyn 06/2003, "Winters Love" Live at Gardners Art Centre 10/05/2003)
E5 ("In the Flowers", "Take Pills", "Visiting Friends" Live Pitchfork 21st Anniversary, NY 02/12/2017, "Winters Love")
E♭5 ("Another White Singer (Little White Glove)", "FloriDada", "Forest Gospel" Live Hollinndagain, "Good Girl/Carrots", "Lablakely Dress", "Turn Into Something")
D5 ("Guys Eyes", "Hey Light", "The Preakness", "Slippi" Live in Sydney 2013, "Tantrum Barb", "Young Prayer 1")
C♯5 ("#1", "Another White Singer (Little White Glove)", "Bonfire of the Vanities" BBC Radio: Huw Stephens 01/11/2005, "Chores", "Covered in Frogs" Breezeblock session 2004, "Jimmy Mack", "Sleeper Factory" Breezeblock session 2004, "There's an Arrow" Live Hollinndagain, "Visiting Friends" Live Pitchfork 21st Anniversary, NY 02/12/2017, "Young Prayer 2", "Young Prayer 4")
C5 ("The Burglars", "Car Keys", "I Think I Can", "Lablakely Dress", "Loch Raven", "Mouth Wooed Her", "Oh Sweet" Live Brooklyn, NY 2002, "Prospect Hummer", "Search for Delicious", "The Softest Voice" Live Pitchfork 21st Anniversary, NY 02/12/2017, "Tikwid", "Today's Supernatural", "Young Prayer 8")
B4 ("2", "Covered in Frogs" Live Pitchfork 21st Anniversary, NY 02/12/2017, "Crescendo", "Dragon Slayer", "Good Girl/Carrots", "Golden Gal", "Good Lovin Outside", "Leaf House" Live at Midi Festival French Riviera 07/2007, "On the Farm", "Scheherazade", "Screens", "The Softest Voice", "Sweet Road", "Take Pills", "Who Could Win a Rabbit" Live Pitchfork 21st Anniversary, NY 02/12/2017, "Winters Love", "Young Prayer 6", "Young Prayer 7")
B♭4 ("Alsatian Darn", "Benfica", "Bleed", "Bonfire of the Vanities" BBC Radio: Huw Stephens 01/11/2005, "Doggy", "Doin' it Right", "FloriDada", "Forest Gospel" Live Hollinndagain, "Happy Singing Band" Live @ Other Music 16/08/2004, "Hey Light", "Home Free", "Kids on Holiday", "Meet the Light Child", "Queen in My Pictures", "The Softest Voice", "Sunset")
A4 ("Bros", "Car Keys", "Daily Routine", "Gnip Gnop", "Goalkeeper", "Golden Gal", "I Think I Can", "Last Night at the Jetty", "My Girls", "New Town Burnout", "The Preakness", "Principe Real", "Recycling", "Rosie Oh", "Slippi" Live in Sydney 2013, "Today's Supernatural", "Tropic of Cancer", "Vertical", "Whaddit I Done" Live Pitchfork 21st Anniversary, NY 02/12/2017, "Young Prayer 1", "Young Prayer 6")
G♯4 ("#1", "Bleed", "Boys Latin", "Brother Sport", "Buoys", "Chores", "Covered in Frogs" Live Pitchfork 21st Anniversary, NY 02/12/2017, "Derek", "FloriDada", "Friendship Bracelet", "Good Lovin Outside", "Lonely Wanderer", "Master", "Mouth Wooed Her", "No More Runnin'", "On a Plain" Live @ Other Music 16/08/2004, "Pride and Fight" Live Hollinndagain, "Pumpkin Gets a Snakebite" Live N. 4th Practice Space Feb 2001, "Queen in My Pictures", "Summertime Clothes", "Surfer's Hymn", "Taste", "Untitled" Live @ Other Music 16/08/2004, "Visiting Friends" Live Pitchfork 21st Anniversary, NY 02/12/2017, "Warmup Song" Live @ Other Music 16/08/2004, "We Tigers", "Whaddit I Done", "Who Could Win a Rabbit", "Young Prayer 8")
G4 ("2", "Afterburner", "Alsatian Darn", "Also Frightened", "Bros", "The Burglars", "Comfy in Nautica", "Cranked", "Crosswords", "Goalkeeper", "Hocus Pocus", "Home Free", "Hounds of Barrio", "I Know I Don't Know", "I Think I Can", "I'm Not", "In the Flowers", "Inside a Great Stadium and a Running Race", "Last Night at the Jetty", "Leaf House", "Loch Raven", "Master", "Moo Rah Rah Rain", "Mr Noah", "Nod to the Folks", "On a Highway", "On Delay", "Prester John", "Screens", "Selfish Gene", "Sequential Circuits", "Shepard Tone", "Spilling Guts", "Strung With Everything", "Summing the Wretch", "There's an Arrow" Live Hollinndagain, "Token", "Tomboy", "What Would I Want? Sky")
F♯4 ("Baby Day", "Benfica", "Bros", "Brother Sport", "Car Keys", "Chores", "College, "Crescendo", "Daily Routine", "De Soto De Son" Live at the Mercury Lounge 13/08/2000, "Derek", "Did You See the Words", "Doin' it Right", "Dragon Slayer", "Flesh Canoe", "Friendship Bracelet", "Graze", "Moo Rah Rah Rain", "Mountain Game", "New Town Burnout", "On a Plain" Live @ Other Music 16/08/2004, "The Preakness", "Queen in My Pictures", "Ponytail", "Prospect Hummer", "Pumpkin Gets a Snakebite" Live N. 4th Practice Space Feb 2001, "Slow Motion", "Sunset", "Tomboy", "Tropic of Cancer", "Turn Into Something", "Visiting Friends" Live Pitchfork 21st Anniversary, NY 02/12/2017, "Walker", "Who Could Win a Rabbit", "Winters Love", "You Can Count on Me", "Young Prayer 1", "Young Prayer 5", "Young Prayer 7")
Significant Low Notes
E3 ("Come to Your Senses", "Friendship Bracelet", "I See You Pan" Live Hollinndagain, "Leaf House", "Lonely Wanderer", "Moo Rah Rah Rain", "My Girls", "Selfish Gene", "Slow Motion", "Spilling Guts", "Sweet Road", "Take Pills", "Tomboy", "Tropic of Cancer", "Vertical", "Visiting Friends" Live Pitchfork 21st Anniversary, NY 02/12/2017, "Young Prayer 4", "Young Prayer 5", "Young Prayer 6")
E♭3 ("Ain't Got No Troubles", "Boys Latin", "Buoys", "Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker", "Doin' it Right", "Fire!", "FloriDada", "Guys Eyes", "Mr Noah", "Peacemaker", "Pride and Fight" Live Hollinndagain, "Scheherazade", "Token")
D3 ("Acid Wash", "Alsatian Darn", "Bros", "Comfy in Nautica", "Crescendo", "I Think I Can", "Inner Monologue", "Leaf House", "Natural Selection", "On Delay", "Principe Real", "Rosie Oh", "Screens", "Sequential Circuits", "Taste", "Tropic of Cancer", "We Built a Robot", "You Can Count on Me", "Young Prayer 2", "Young Prayer 5", "Young Prayer 7")
C♯3 ("Benfica", "Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker", "Car Keys", "Chores", "Doggy" Breezeblock session 2004, "Good Girl/Carrots", "Master", "The Preakness", "Surfer's Hymn", "Tomboy", "Walker", "You Can Count on Me", "Young Prayer 4", "Young Prayer 8")
C3 ("Come to Your Senses", "Cranked", "Happy Singing Band" Live @ Other Music 16/08/2004, "I Think I Can", "Last Night at the Jetty", "Nod to the Folks", "Part of the Math", "Peacemaker", "Prospect Hummer", "Screens", "Shepard Tone", "Tantrum Barb", "What Would I Want? Sky")
B2 ("Flight", "Good Lovin Outside", "Inside a Great Stadium and a Running Race", "Lonely Wanderer", "New Town Burnout", "On Delay", "Young Prayer 8")
B♭2 ("Afterburner", "Covered in Frogs" Breezeblock session 2004, "Doggy" Breezeblock session 2004, "Good Girl/Carrots", "Hounds of Barrio", "Kids on Holiday", "The Softest Voice" Live Pitchfork 21st Anniversary, NY 02/12/2017)
A2 ("Lying in the Grass", "Mountain Game", "Natural Selection", "New Town Burnout", "We Tigers")
G♯2 ("Mouth Wooed Her", "Winters Love")
F♯2 ("Winters Love")
F2 ("Winters Love" Live Pitchfork 21st Anniversary, NY 02/12/2017)
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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.
{Questionable Notes}
B♭5 ("Good Girl/Carrots" [3]))
C5 ("Principe Real" [4])
Maybe I'm built different, but I swear "Young Prayer 9" is Deakin. Either that or it's pitch-shifted.
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
B♭5 ("Good Girl/Carrots" [3]))
C5 ("Principe Real" [4])
Maybe I'm built different, but I swear "Young Prayer 9" is Deakin. Either that or it's pitch-shifted.
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
{Discography}
*note, these are all complete, I just couldn't be assed with the album ranges
Animal Collective
LPs
(2000) Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished: N/A
(2001) Danse Manatee: N/A - E♭5
(2003) Campfire Songs: E3 - E4 - B♭4
(2003) Ark: barely applicable, only sings on "Hey Light"
(2004) Sung Tongs: F♯2 - E3 - G♯4 - B4 - F♯5
(2005) Feels: N/A - F♯4 - E♭5
(2007) Strawberry Jam: C♯3 - G♯4 - C♯5
(2009) Merriweather Post Pavilion: D3 - G♯4 - D5 - E5
(2012) Centipede Hz: A2 - A4 - C5
(2016) Painting With: A2 - E♭5
(2022) Time Skiffs: C♯3 - G4 - A4 - C5
EPs
(2005) Prospect Hummer:
(2006) People: N/A
(2008) Water Curses: N/A
(2009) Fall Be Kind: C3 - D3 - G4 - A4 - C5
(2011) Keep + Animal Collective: one song each
(2012) Transverse Temporal Gyrus: N/A
(2013) Monkey Been to Burntown: N/A
(2017) The Painters: E♭3 - G4 - C♯5
(2017) Meeting of the Waters: N/A
(2020) Bridge to Quiet:
Live Recording Compilations
(2002) Hollinndagain: E♭3 - E♭5 (in "Lablakely Dress")
(2009) Animal Crack Box
Visual Albums
(2010) ODDSAC: C3 - G4 - D5
(2018) Tangerine Reef: N/A
Solo
(1999) Panda Bear: B2 - F4 - B4
(2004) Young Prayer: B2 - F♯4 - D5
(2007) Person Pitch: B♭2 - C♯3 - B4 - E5 - B♭5
(2011) Tomboy: indeed
(2015) Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper: B2 - G4 - A4
(2019) Buoys: yes
*note, these are all complete, I just couldn't be assed with the album ranges
Animal Collective
LPs
(2000) Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished: N/A
(2001) Danse Manatee: N/A - E♭5
(2003) Campfire Songs: E3 - E4 - B♭4
(2003) Ark: barely applicable, only sings on "Hey Light"
(2004) Sung Tongs: F♯2 - E3 - G♯4 - B4 - F♯5
(2005) Feels: N/A - F♯4 - E♭5
(2007) Strawberry Jam: C♯3 - G♯4 - C♯5
(2009) Merriweather Post Pavilion: D3 - G♯4 - D5 - E5
(2012) Centipede Hz: A2 - A4 - C5
(2016) Painting With: A2 - E♭5
(2022) Time Skiffs: C♯3 - G4 - A4 - C5
EPs
(2005) Prospect Hummer:
(2006) People: N/A
(2008) Water Curses: N/A
(2009) Fall Be Kind: C3 - D3 - G4 - A4 - C5
(2011) Keep + Animal Collective: one song each
(2012) Transverse Temporal Gyrus: N/A
(2013) Monkey Been to Burntown: N/A
(2017) The Painters: E♭3 - G4 - C♯5
(2017) Meeting of the Waters: N/A
(2020) Bridge to Quiet:
Live Recording Compilations
(2002) Hollinndagain: E♭3 - E♭5 (in "Lablakely Dress")
(2009) Animal Crack Box
Visual Albums
(2010) ODDSAC: C3 - G4 - D5
(2018) Tangerine Reef: N/A
Solo
(1999) Panda Bear: B2 - F4 - B4
(2004) Young Prayer: B2 - F♯4 - D5
(2007) Person Pitch: B♭2 - C♯3 - B4 - E5 - B♭5
(2011) Tomboy: indeed
(2015) Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper: B2 - G4 - A4
(2019) Buoys: yes
