gold pandas debut full-length, >lucky shiner<, arrives on ghostly international! >i didnt want to write beats,< says gold panda, >i didnt want bangers. i wanted songs with structure.< and yet, despite gold pandas protests to the contrary, lucky shiner is full of bangers ¿ of a kind. decamping to an idyllic retreat means the album bears trademarks of a pastorally hued englishness, gps two years spent studying japanese culture, language, and history at the school of oriental and asian studies in japan also find their way into the music.