Within hours, according to the cybersecurity researchers at Panda Labs, the loose group of hackers that calls itself Anonymous launched a distributed denial of service attack that threw junk traffic at the web server of the blog that had made the WikiLeaks announcement, and by 4am had taken the site offline.
With Merriweather Post Pavilion, as with group member Noah Lennox's solo album Person Pitch (released under the name Panda Bear), the instrumentation has moved in an electronic direction, with samples and looping serving as a foundation for both albums.