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Jim Ottewill

“It has this cascading ghost cloud kind of vibe that I’m just so into - it sounds like a machine passing out”: Panda Bear and Sonic Boom tell us about the tech and production of their latest collaborative album

Panda Bear and Sonic Boom.

As co-writers, collaborators and musical partners, Noah Lennox, aka Panda Bear - the co-founder of Animal Collective and solo act - and Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom and formerly of Spacemen 3 and Spectrum, have been working together for the best part of 15 years. The fruits of their musical connection were first heard when Sonic Boom mixed and co-produced Panda Bear's 2011 solo album, Tomboy.

Their relationship has now blossomed into new record, A ? of WHEN. Themes of ecological sustainability and dystopian futures bubble under the surface of a luscious neo-psychedelic soundscape.

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