- Saturday 4 July22:00, Eos
Both have helped define alternative rock and psychedelic sound explorations for decades. And for 20 years, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom have been musical partners in crime, bringing out the best in each other. Now the two visionary acid heads are meeting at Roskilde Festival, and the stage is set for a genuine sonic trip.
At the beginning of the millennium, American Noah Benjamin Lennox made a name for himself with his creative endeavours with the band Animal Collective, which he co-founded and which enjoyed great success on the alternative music scene. At the same time, he has received praise as a solo artist under the name Panda Bear and released a number of highly acclaimed albums that demonstrates his flair for creating lush soundscapes, where the legacy of 1960s psychedelic pop, folk and rock is combined with electronic loops, otherworldly samples and inspiration from techno.
A friendship on MySpace with British psych icon Sonic Boom (aka Peter Kemper, known as co-founder of Spacemen 3) led to a creative alliance that has resulted in Sonic Boom producing several of Panda Bear's releases. In 2022, however, the two musicians took their collaboration to new heights with their joint masterpiece Reset, which took a deep dive into their shared love of 1960s pop music and transformed this love into new creations through quirky sound experiments and collages of samples.
“An intoxicating mind meld over a sample-heavy tribute to 1960s pop,” wrote Pitchfork in an enthusiastic review of the album, which was also reinterpreted in a dub version in 2023, remixed by the legendary Adrian Sherwood. Sonic Boom and Panda Bear have since performed together at several leading international festivals, and their collaboration continues with their joint 7" release "Graveyard / Lucky charm", which is being released perfectly timed for this summer's concert at Roskilde Festival.
