Submitted by Colemeezy on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 14:40.
The menacingly beautiful rock music has been refined in Hot Chip's Brick Lane studio and championed by DJs such as XFM's John Kennedy, who can't stop playing "Happy Birthday", and DFA mixmaster Tim Sweeney, who requested their track "Anthem" for his influential Beats In Space net show.
Glasgow-based music venue, Optimo, believes Lesser Panda are the new Bauhaus. Some say it's the sound of early, angular Simple Minds blended with the doomed romance of Echo and the Bunnymen. Or Interpol if they just lightened up a bit.
Blessed with the kind of smoldering stage presence most groups would kill for, their sets give the crowd the blistering euphoria of a classic dance record with all the urgency and vigour of a live rock band.
Boasting insanely catchy riffs, Lesser Panda’s latest offering, the double A side ‘Ghostdance’ & ‘Carousel’ are two haunting tracks guaranteed to appeal to the most discerning of ears. Coining the phrase, gothic disco house, the 5 piece delivered the infectious single on last year on Superdark Music.At the moment, the band are in the studio recording their first album.
Lesser Panda ...
The menacingly beautiful rock music has been refined in Hot Chip's Brick Lane studio and championed by DJs such as XFM's John Kennedy, who can't stop playing "Happy Birthday", and DFA mixmaster Tim Sweeney, who requested their track "Anthem" for his influential Beats In Space net show.
Glasgow-based music venue, Optimo, believes Lesser Panda are the new Bauhaus. Some say it's the sound of early, angular Simple Minds blended with the doomed romance of Echo and the Bunnymen. Or Interpol if they just lightened up a bit.
Blessed with the kind of smoldering stage presence most groups would kill for, their sets give the crowd the blistering euphoria of a classic dance record with all the urgency and vigour of a live rock band.
Boasting insanely catchy riffs, Lesser Panda’s latest offering, the double A side ‘Ghostdance’ & ‘Carousel’ are two haunting tracks guaranteed to appeal to the most discerning of ears. Coining the phrase, gothic disco house, the 5 piece delivered the infectious single on last year on Superdark Music.At the moment, the band are in the studio recording their first album.