Music

Animal Collective co-founder Panda Bear’s first solo album ‘Young Prayer’ dealt with the death of its creator’s father and was a mesmerising but slightly downbeat affair. This follow-up, however, is the sonic equivalent of a joyfully lysergic summer. The radiant ‘I’m Not’, with its infinity of echoing harmonies and the ecstatic, 12-minutes-and-counting mantra, ‘Bros’ are particular highlights, but throughout the album manages to balance beautiful and complex melodies with a deliciously unstable sense of exploration.