Monday, March 06, 2006

New Jade Tree Signees: Panda And Angel



Continuing it's recent signing frenzy, Jade Tree has picked up Seattle, Washington's Panda and Angel. Panda and Angel is a relatively new collaboration between Carrie Murphy of Touchdown Eagle, Josh Wackerly of S and several other players. In simple terms, their sound is very moving, their music can move from delicate melodies and vocals into a wall of graceful distortion in the blink of an eye. That's what makes this band very interesting to me though, songs with large expansive chreshendos always get me and Panda and Angels have got 'em down. Panda and Angel recently completed work on their self-titled six song EP at Avast! studio in Seattle, it's expected to see a release by mid-summer.

[MP3]: Panda and Angel :: Dangerous (Very Highly Rec'd)
First of all, if the rest of the EP is on par with this song, I can see it definitely being a big favorite of mine this year. The song starts out with a bubbley beeps and pops and then a low lying guitar line comes in and it's a only a matter of seconds until Panda and Angel turn on the distortion and set the song in motion. But the wave distortion leaves as quickly as it came and gives way to a tempo change and handclaps! I don't know about you guys, but I feel like some perfectly placed handclaps can take a song from good to amazing just like that. But no, they don't stop at handclaps, after a few more movemts through the song, a definite buildup begins that eventually leads the explosive ending I was hoping for the whole time.

Panda and Angel on Myspace.


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