PANDA BEAR & SONIC BOOM - A ? Of When LP Independent Though often lumped in with

Though often lumped in with New Orleans sludge bands like Eyehategod and Crowbar

With roots in Montreal

and often Underloop feels much like a collection of the sludgey interludes and foggy sketches that underpin his sets

The sonic realizations presented here are of a number of different kinds

PANDA BEAR & SONIC BOOM - A ? Of When LP Independent Though often lumped in withPanda 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,