album of the week: PANDA BEAR - PERSON PITCH / BRACKEN - WE KNOW ABOUT THE NEED

These two records have more things in common than what you can imagine from the beginning. Both come from individual acts from components of notorious bands; Animal collective’s Panda Bear and Hood’s C. Addams (called bracken for the occasion). Both records come from the necessity of doing something different from their main bands. Both use repetition, loops, samples, echoes and atmospheres but getting different results. While Bracken sometimes gets near the forms of Clouddead or Subtle, in fact the record is published through Anticon records and their members have collaborated with him before, Panda Bear goes more spatial and tribal, abandoning the acoustic spirit of his previous solo works