Good Luck and Do Your Best is imbued with shiny-eyed, open-hearted optimism, and built with all the sensitivity and care that we’ve come to expect from anything Gold Panda touches.
Inspired by a trip to Japan, Good Luck and Do Your Best is one of Gold Panda's warmest, sunniest releases, reflecting the colorful foliage of the island nation.
Executed with conviction and instilled with its spirited concept, Good Luck and Do Your Best is an excitingly off-beat take on a feel-good album. This is Gold Panda’s most accomplished and adventurous work yet.
GLADYB doesn't really deviate from the path that was laid down by previous albums Lucky Shiner and Half of Where You Live, but — perhaps even more impressively — it stays decidedly on it, rounding out a beautiful trilogy of semi-danceable, definitely nod-able records. It may even be his best.
Good Luck and Do Your Best is an album about journeys, walking as a stranger through a new world, and finding grace and comfort in anonymity. As such, the album serves as a journey of its own, a bit of peace ideal for a bus ride or walk, a path to find solace in isolation and contemplation.
What's unique about Good Luck is how it sounds less like a specific place than a flurry of memories made there.
There is variety in the minute details that’s lost on the grand scope, as Good Luck draws too much from the same source.
Gold Panda becomes our own personal tour guide as he uses his exotic palette to transport us to foreign lands.
Producer Gold Panda is no stranger to Japan, or to traveling for that matter. His new record “Good Luck and Do Your Best” prominently displays his exotic palette and his ability to express it through soundscapes built from short samples and synthesizers. This is not his first attempt at faraway electronic music, his debut and sophomore records both capitalized on the same ... read more
Ohhhh baby. Best Gold Panda album yet. So many textures. "In My Car" is one of my jams of the year.
Favorite tracks: In My Car, Song for a Dead Friend, Metal Bird, I Am Real Punk, Time Eater
1 | Metal Bird 3:42 | |
2 | In My Car 4:28 | |
3 | Chiba Nights 4:02 | |
4 | Pink & Green 4:14 | |
5 | Song for a Dead Friend 4:20 | |
6 | I Am Real Punk 4:30 | |
7 | Autumn Fall 3:40 | |
8 | Halyards 4:11 | |
9 | Time Eater 4:53 | |
10 | Unthank 2:46 | |
11 | Your Good Times Are Just Beginning 3:45 |
#8 | / | Norman Records |
#16 | / | Loud and Quiet |
#40 | / | The Skinny |
#43 | / | Fopp |
#72 | / | Rough Trade |
#93 | / | Piccadilly Records |