Gold Panda – Lucky Shiner (Deluxe Splattered Fireworks Edition)

Label: Ghostly International – GI-123 LP
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Deluxe Edition, Stereo, Fireworks
Country: UK & US
Released: Aug 2024
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, IDM, Downtempo, Glitch

As Ghostly celebrates its 25th season as a label in 2024. Gold Panda's breakthrough debut album 'Lucky Shiner' receives a special fireworks vinyl Obi edition.

Gold Panda reflects - "This record changed my life...It's been hard to get on vinyl for quite a while so I hope it can conjure some good memories from the people who heard it the first time round as well as find a new audience and inspire more people to make music, regardless of whether they know what they are doing or not. In my case, I had no idea, and I still don't...and that's the way I like it...so go on, get on with the thing you want to do!"

Where were you for “You”? Gold Panda’s hypnotic track entered the celestial tape deck just as music blog culture neared its halcyon heights in the spring of 2010, stuttering across an excited global community of writers and fans. The sound was different; a collision of pinched and pitched vocal cuts, percussive vinyl-static pops, and teary-eyed chord changes that felt both human and foreign, as if the strange interpretation of youthful nostalgia were broadcasting back from some faraway future.

Impossibly replayable (and remixable as proven by Osborne and others), “You” built off “Quitters Raga,” the British producer’s breakthrough single nine months earlier, and cleared the runway for Lucky Shiner, a career-propelling, watershed work that proved Gold Panda could stir emotion with modest methods in the full-length format as well. From the symphony of twinkling bells and strings on “Snow & Taxis” to the high-flying melancholia of “Marriage,” Lucky Shiner shaped a vision of electronic music that tugged at the heart as much as it nodded to the dancefloor.

A1. You
A2. Vanilla Minus
A3. Parents
A4. Same Dream China
A5. Snow & Taxis
A6. Before We Talked
B1. Marriage
B2. I'm With You But I'm Lonely
B3. After We Talked
B4. India Lately
B5. You (Part II)