{"id":480839,"date":"2019-01-14T06:06:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=778389"},"modified":"2019-01-14T06:06:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:06:54","slug":"see-dean-blunt-endure-amusement-park-in-panda-bears-token-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-dean-blunt-endure-amusement-park-in-panda-bears-token-video\/","title":{"rendered":"See Dean Blunt Endure Amusement Park in Panda Bear\u2019s \u2018Token\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-13-at-6.50.28-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>U.K. artist Dean Blunt endures the sensory explosion that is an amusement park in the new video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/panda-bear\/\" id=\"auto-tag_panda-bear\" data-tag=\"panda-bear\">Panda Bear<\/a>\u2019s \u201cToken,\u201d the latest single off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/panda-bear-new-album-buoys-dolphin-753264\/\">his upcoming album <em>Buoys<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the video\u2019s preface explains, Blunt, as the director of the \u201cToken\u201d video, originally planned to make something <em>Toy Story<\/em>-inspired for the video, then something related to \u201ccowboys and cowgrrrls,\u201d then a video about a \u201ctoken,\u201d and so on until \u201che lost his fucking mind. Literally, he can\u2019t remember his own songs anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to cheer Blunt up, the production crew took the artist to an amusement park, with the <em>Buoys<\/em> track serving as the soundtrack as a dour Blunt rides the bumper cars, explores the hall of mirrors and attempts to win a stuffed bear. By video\u2019s end, the experience has cheered Blunt up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToken\u201d is the second single off <em>Buoys<\/em> following the LP\u2019s opening track \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/panda-bear-new-album-buoys-dolphin-753264\/\">Dolphin<\/a>.\u201d <em>Buoys<\/em>, the Animal Collective member\u2019s first full-length since 2015\u2019s <em>Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper<\/em>, arrives February 8th, with a short North American tour to follow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/panda-bear-dean-blunt-token-video-778389\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. artist Dean Blunt endures the sensory explosion that is an amusement park in the new video for Panda Bear\u2019s \u201cToken,\u201d the latest single off his upcoming album Buoys. As the video\u2019s preface explains, Blunt, as the director of the \u201cToken\u201d video, originally planned to make something Toy Story-inspired for the video, then something related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 14:52:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}