Animal Collective co-founder Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox scores a new video celebrating the spring/summer 2014 line of Portuguese designer Fernanda Pereira, who happens to be his wife. Seen above, the Joana Linda-directed clip (Marissa Nadler, Rose Blanket) is hardly your usual catwalk fare. Instead, the models therein sport far-out couture while executing odd choreography, chasing balloons, and testing out deranged smiles. The music is equally beautiful and experimental, opening with a hail of clattering percussion, drifting into airier territory, and eventually giving way to Kanye-like skronk. (Oh, and blood-curdling screams as the aforementioned balloons are popped.) It’s a wild collaboration and the first new Panda Bear solo sounds since 2011’s excellent Tomboy. Lennox also appeared on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories and, of course, Animal Collective’s Centipede Hz.
See Models Writhe to Panda Bear’s Solo Sounds in Fashion Preview Clip
