Following the timeless Reset, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom return with A ? of WHEN, another playful act of musical curiosity. Steel drums, pedal steel, and harp loops from Mary Lattimore drift through an ever-shifting collage of samples and melodies, revealing themselves like sonic subtext. Optimistic without being naïve, it’s a record that meets experimentation with open ears and a sense of wonder.
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Panda Bear & Sonic Boom :: Reset Mariachi EP
… the 2022 album Reset has been subject to many playful experimentations, including an expanded edition with remixes and instrumentals and an EP of dub versionings produced by Adrian Sherwood. For this year’s own toying with Reset, the goal was making mariachi versions of two of the record’s most compelling songs: “Danger” and “Livin in the After.”
Transmissions :: Panda Bear and Sonic Boom
Built on loops culled from doo wop, psychedelic pop, and early rock & roll records, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom’s new album Reset is an exuberant and oracular listen. In this all-new episode of our weekly interview podcast Transmissions, Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) and Peter Kember (Sonic Boom) sit down with host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss their collaborative partnership, the influence of far out futurist Buckminster Fuller, memory and musical optimism.
Decade :: Panda Bear, Person Pitch (2007)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in […]
Atlas Sound/Panda Bear :: Walkabout (New)
While I’m a casual fan of Animal Collective , Panda Bear’s Person Pitch LP remains one of my favorite albums of 2007. Panda (Noah Lennox) has tagged up with Bradford Cox on the track “Walkabout” from the upcoming […]