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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
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Posted on January 6, 2008 8:07 PM
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Comments (8)
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