PANDA BEAR & SONIC BOOM - A ? OF WHEN Format:Black Vinyl LP ‘Look Like Me’ sees them

‘Look Like Me’ sees them singing about their own appearance

spawned out of a compulsive need to not just comment on the dystopian corporate wasteland we all face but to trace it back to the origin of this fate

and fading in and out of an architectural silence

with artwork designed by Somers’ longtime collaborator Scott Alario

bittersweet triumph

PANDA BEAR & SONIC BOOM - A ? OF WHEN Format:Black Vinyl LP ‘Look Like Me’ sees themPanda 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,