Bear In Heaven
Red Bloom of the Boom
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Hometapes, 2007
7.3
Album Reviews
Written by Chris Fore
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
 Bear In Heaven is helping attach art to the word indie with a desolate, artificial sound highlighted by disconnected vocals.   On their debut, this experimental four-piece produces an airy, psychological rock journey through dark illusions and vacuous effects.  Red Bloom of the Boom is a mind-stretching collection of semi-conscious tracks that evoke images few bands could.

The album as a whole is a digital caterpillar with various glitches and effects stretching out in different directions and slow pushing it along.  The opening track, "Bag of Bags" is shakes from a chill, with bent guitars and swirling vocals.  "Slow Gold" mixes soft vocals with space-odyssey synth and drums of all sorts of arrangements.  "Werewolf" is a somber, electronic fairy tale with a powerfully slow rhythm.  "Arm's Length" is a drum/synth combo of low-key experimentation as one of the more artistic tracks on Red Bloom of the Boom.   "Fraternal Noon" is more buzzing and washing, "Shining and Free" is slow-building art-ballad that ends on a romping beat, and "For Beauty" ends the album quietly with the sound of a desolate wind blowing across a plain.

Only seven tracks long, Red Bloom of the Boom is able to focus more variation and aura into each one, making for a more intense, artistic feel.  It's both different and challenging, and goes for its audience between the ears.

MP3 Stream: "Shining and Free"

-Chris Fore
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