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Posted in MP3 | To Do | music on January 6, 2008
BEAR IN HEAVEN - MP3s, an album & a show tonight
DOWNLOAD: Bear in Heaven - Bag of Bags (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Bear in Heaven - Werewolf (single edit) (MP3)
I came across Brooklyn bear band Bear in Heaven while browsing tonight's (Sunday, Jan 6) Mercury Lounge listing. So far I like what I hear. To put it in Pitchfork's terms,
it reminds me a bit of the early-1990s UK post-rock outfits Bark Psychosis and Disco Inferno.Or to quote the Onion AV Club, it's like a
functional mix of This Heat, '70s soft rock, early Genesis, and oddly, later Pink Floyd. (Think Animals through The Final Cut.) From a more modern perspective, songs like "Bag Of Bags," "Slow Gold," and "Fraternal Noon" point at Mercury Rev and Animal CollectiveOr to just put it more like Popmatters,
a mess, yes, but a magnificent oneSee their 1.5 year old La Blogoteque Take Away show @ Daily Motion. Pick up their album @ Insound. Check out the two MP3s on the top of this post. Check out their clever video flyer for tonight's show, below....
BEAR IN HEAVEN, SUCKERS AND BIRTHDAY BOYZ SHOW 01.06.08
Posted on January 6, 2008 8:07 PM
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Ahhh, This Heat, an amazing band. I was always pissed that we didn't take them out on the Gang of Four tours back in the day...
I was talking with Menomena earlier this year about This Heat as I think they come so close to replicating that sound but alas they'd never heard of them....
Dave Pampelmoose
Posted by Dave Allen | January 7, 2008 12:49 AM
yes! This Heat - Deceit - greatest album ever!
Posted by Anonymous | January 7, 2008 9:25 AM
yes! This Heat - Deceit - greatest album ever!
Posted by Anonymous | January 7, 2008 9:25 AM
Oh cool, another Bear band. great.
Posted by Anonymous | January 7, 2008 9:29 AM
might as well throw 'horse' or 'wolf' in the title too - for the hell of it.
Posted by Anonymous | January 7, 2008 12:58 PM
"might as well throw 'horse' or 'wolf' in the title too - for the hell of it. "
look at the name of the MP3s.
Posted by Anonymous | January 7, 2008 1:07 PM
I've seen this band twice. Much as I dislike the correlation of bears and wolves to indie rock, I like this band.
Posted by Sha-na-na-nomynous | January 7, 2008 7:24 PM
My new band is called DonkeyPigWolf.
(ps. on listening to the myspace page of 'Bear In Heaven', they sound pretty good actually).
Posted by Richie | January 7, 2008 8:19 PM