Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - ResetAlthough Panda Bear and Sonic Boom are no strangers to each others music, Reset marks their first collaborative release. When Sonic Boom pitched an idea to take their working relationship to the next level, he reckoned Panda Bear might reject the proposition outright in the nine gloriously, feverishly hook bound tracks of Reset, though, you can hear exactly how much he loved the prospect. Sonic Booms notion was simple enough: After lugging his records

wave your arms in the air chorus

While I definitely tried to give the listener some room to breathe at certain points and while

Sonic Youth proved they could harness their energy into a combustible engine

and succeeds quite nicely on its own terms

with Art Neville's leads on covers of Ty Hunter's soulful uptown shuffle "Darling

was influenced by their wiring diagrams

aggressive harmonies and almost (but not quite) robotic sound still has a resonance that echoes even today

But that wasn’t to be

Think Prince trapped in the wiring of a dusty Sega Mega Drive

Thanks to their first-class training in funk and soul while playing in James Brown’s Band

‘Pad’ is a conceptual work reflecting on isolation and identity

catapulting their work into unexplored territories of human-robotic collaboration