Panda Bear Announces New Album 'Sinister Grift'

Panda Bear, the solo project of Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox, announces his new full-length Sinister Grift, due out February 28, 2025 on Domino. Lennox recorded the album at his Estudio Campo in Lisbon, Portugal and co-produced it with his Animal Collective bandmate Josh Dibb. Today he shares the album’s first single “Defense,” which features Cindy Lee, the persona of Canadian musician Patrick Flegel, on guitar. 

On Sinister Grift, Lennox’s first solo album in five years, he has returned with another statement that feels equally cumulative and unprecedented in his catalog. While his solo records have ranged from starkly intimate expressions of grief to colorful, electronic opuses, his music has never before sounded so warm and immediate. Working in his Lisbon, Portugal home studio with Animal Collective bandmate Josh “Deakin” Dibb, Lennox transforms Panda Bear into something resembling an old-school rock ensemble, playing nearly all the instruments himself and inviting kindred spirits into the process such as Cindy Lee, Spirit of the Beehive’s Rivka Ravede, and—for the first time on a Panda Bear solo album—each of his Animal Collective bandmates.   

Today Panda Bear announces his 2025 North American tour, including a run with Toro y Moi, as well as EU/UK dates in December of this year and March 2025. All dates are below.

PANDA BEAR ON TOUR 

2024 
EU/UK 
12/04: Salão Brazil – Coimbra, PT
12/05: Radar – Vigo, ES
12/06: El Desierto – Valladolid, ES
12/07: Plano B – Porto, PT
12/08: ZDB – Lisboa, PT
12/10: Lexington – London, UK
12/11: Lark – Berlin, DE
12/13: Le Hasard Ludique – Paris, FR 

2025 
North America 
* w/ Toro y Moi
2/06: First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN *
2/07: The Salt Shed - Chicago, IL *
2/08: Royal Oak Music Hall - Detroit, MI *
2/10: The Danforth Music Hall - Toronto, ON *
2/11: MTELUS - Montreal, QC *
2/12: Roadrunner - Boston, MA *
2/14: Terminal 5 - New York City, NY *
2/15: Franklin Music Hall - Philadelphia, PA *
2/16: 9:30 Club - Washington, DC *
2/19: The Ritz - Raleigh, NC *
2/20: Marathon Music Works – Nashville, TN *
2/21: Tabernacle - Atlanta, GA *
5/08: The Van Buren - Phoenix, AZ *
5/12: Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater - Austin, TX *
5/13: White Oak Music Hall - Houston, TX *
5/14: House of Blues - Dallas, TX *
5/16: The Fillmore - Denver, CO *
5/19: The Chapel - San Francisco, CA
5/21: Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR
5/22: The Showbox - Seattle, WA
5/23: Hollywood Theatre - Vancouver, BC 

2025 
EU 
3/20: Capitólio - Lisboa, PT
3/21: Theatro Circo – Braga, PT
3/22: Almacenes – Oviedo, ES
3/23: Kafe Antzokia – Bilbao, ES
3/25: Paral·lel 62 – Barcelona, ES
3/26: 16 Toneladas – Valencia, ES
3/27: La Sala – Madrid, ES
3/28: Teatro das Figuras – Faro, PT