… 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.”
Category: Sonic Boom
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.
Sonic Boom :: All Things Being Equal
The first Sonic Boom album in thirty years finds Peter Kember reemerging, paradoxically, at the height of his influence. While the grandiose space-rock frontsmanship of his erstwhile Spacemen 3 partner Jason Pierce has faded somewhat into the safety of the adult contemporary rotation, the seeds Kember has scattered as experimenter, heteronymous collaborator, and champion of analog synthesizers seem finally to be bearing their full fruit.