Gradually, though, this bright and breezy team-up is revealed to have a chillier side. Were doo-wop psych-pop opener ‘Gettin’ To The Point’ any more joyous, it would risk structural damage to the listener’s pleasures receptors. Harmonies are poured atop melodies atop lyrics that read like the Beach Boys ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’ fed into one of those algorithmic AI art generators (“Everyday, a little bit longer / Every way, a little bit stronger,” chirrups Lennox on ‘Everyday’). Hammered into strange new shapes, these wonky samples serve as launch pads for Lennox’s Everlasting Gobstopper pop and Kember’s maximalist production. Eddie Cochran’s ‘Three Steps To Heaven’ and The Everly Brothers ‘Love Of My Life’ are among the tunes lovingly purloined. It is built around loops culled from the intros to rock ’n roll 45s from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Reset is a power-pop concept album as well as a meeting of kindred spirits and fellow ex-pats (the two are long-term residents of Portugal). But disappointment is kept at bay throughout Reset, a fast and furry-ious alliance between two enduring luminaries of indie psychedelia: Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) and former Spacemen 3 driving force Pete Kember (Sonic Boom). There is a long history of superstar match-ups which read as heavenly on paper only to prove hellish in execution (when a trench-coated Bowie leaps into frame in slow motion in the ‘Dancing In The Street’ video, twenty years of credibility evaporate in twenty nanoseconds). Alien v Predator, Batman v Superman, David Bowie v Mick Jagger.

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