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MagnetAug 6, 2014This may be the bleak and heavy masterpiece that BIH has been hovering around for the past decade. [No. 112, p.53]
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Aug 4, 2014In their current form, Bear in Heaven may indeed be far more accessible than they were in the mid to late aughts when a song sporting a verse/chorus framework was the exception rather than the rule (even now it's more of a suggestion). Nevertheless, a brazen and workmanlike confidence marks the album as a more recognizable creative evolution than its predecessor's endearing, but ultimately canned, artistic departure.
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Aug 1, 2014Time Is Over One Day Old use a less is more approach, the understated subtlety of which results in their best album to date.
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Aug 1, 2014Not so much breaking up with old ways of thinking as redefining and refining them, Bear In Heaven have gone back to what they do best.
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Aug 1, 2014This is a record that nurtures and works around feeling, clawing its hooks deep wherever you lay most vulnerable. Sensual is most definitely the word.
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Aug 7, 2014While Time isn’t a massive overhaul, Bear in Heaven tweaked where they needed to, and picked up a pretty neat trick along the way. The more you listen to these songs, the more they linger.
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Aug 13, 2014On Time Is Over One Day Old, there’s always something missing, a mystery hanging in the air, yet it’s the band’s most satisfying album yet.
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Aug 7, 2014Time Is Over One Day Old is a subtle and moody work that somehow manages to keep moving forward with a mechanical precision, giving one the otherworldly, but not at all unpleasant, feeling of standing still on a moving walkway.
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Aug 7, 2014Featuring 10 tracks of gooey, dislocated goodness, its gravity-free atmospherics are just right for soundtracking summer moon treks, intergalactic windsurfing, and asteroid volleyball. Down to earth it is not: These deep but compact space jams can't get much higher.
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Aug 5, 2014With his altered, multi-tracked vocals and ear for dynamic builds, Philpots leads Bear in Heaven on a similar sonic path [as My Morning Jacket's Z], surrounding biting verse-chorus-verse lyricism with ambient laser beams and rubbery textures.
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Aug 4, 2014This one's for the headphones.