Panda Bear/Agnes Montgomery

Panda Bear's new album Person Pitch has been showered with critical praise, and rightly so.  It's rare to hear music that seems at once modern and nostalgic, and without so much as a trace of irony.  This is a lush layer cake of harmonies and startlingly lovely textures.  And while Noah Lennox's voice does have some similarity to Brian Wilson's, this is no Beach Boys throwback.  This is the sound of Tomorrowland.  As an added bonus, the miraculous cover art is done by Agnes Montgomery, whose collages look like childhood viewed through a warped kaleidoscope.