PANDA BEAR & SONIC BOOM - A ? Of When LP 60s going to Indonesia was like

going to Indonesia was like Marco Polo going to China

Sandoz Lab Technicians

The album is filled with heavy riffs

all adding up to the kind of intimacy that caught my eye the morning I sat in the diner waiting for the sun to get stronger as I saw intimacy pass by while going about it’s business

just when the whole thing starts to wobble

PANDA BEAR & SONIC BOOM - A ? Of When LP 60s going to Indonesia was likePanda Bear and Sonic Booms second album together, A ? of WHEN, maintains the sense of musical play brought forth in their triumphant 2022 debut, Reset. It is built on loops of harp (Mary Lattimore) and sequences of steel drum, webs of pedal steel and even bits of a mariachi band. These are, of course, deliberate choices, sounds and textures theyve never used and that offered a clear sonic break from the success of Reset. But maybe more than ever,