the meanings of the songs range from the experience of being a woman in today’s society to the feeling of being lost and disconnected as an expatriate in France

A song about someone else’s damage helps you understand your own

With track titles like ’Flocking’

or the bluesy touch of Loren Connors in the guitar

It's possible this lp even helped inform factions of the New York No Wave (member Patrick Geoffois would go on to be a member of both The Contortions & James White & The Blacks)

PANDA BEAR & SONIC BOOM - A ? Of When LP Neo Crust the meanings of the songsPanda 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,