The Work

Although he never truly left, Derwin Dicker’s palpable absence from his Gold Panda project has made it a long six years since its last album. In that time, he has been hard at work with a handful of side projects, such as the vibrant house tracks of his DJ Jenifa alias, and his collaborations with Jas Shaw of Simian Mobile Disco as Selling. What has been missing, however, is the highly emotional electronica that makes the Gold Panda name so revered. This is perhaps his most organic sounding album to date too, full to the brim like an aviary of instrumental samples mixed into an intricate beat fresco. Blushing piano chords and blissful harps are braided into the fabric of ‘The Dream’, while the deep reverberations of tabla give a cinematic energy to the more turbulent and solitary ‘The Want’.