Bear In Heaven – Time Is Over One Day Old

Bear In Heaven are here to stay....
Bear In Heaven : Time Is Over One Day Old
7.9 Dead Oceans
2014 

Bear In Heaven : Time Is Over One Day OldBrooklyn’s Bear In Heaven burst forth in 2009 with Beast Rest Forth Mouth (QRO review), one of the records that helped make Brooklyn an epicenter for today’s alternative electronic music (like how the borough is ground zero for some much other music). However, the success got a bit to the group’s head with 2012 follow-up I Love You, It’s Cool (QRO review), veering away from the interesting experimental to more expectable synth-pop. Synths were more popular by then, and I Love You couldn’t stand out as much. Now comes Time Is Over One Day Old, which finds a middle ground as the group settles into being relatively ‘established’.

Bear In Heaven know their way around synthesized sounds, something that hasn’t changed, and know how to do more with them. There’s the airy exploration of opener “Autumn” and the subsequent entrancing – but not ‘trance’ – “Time Between”. They can even shift within songs, like from atmospheric to intimate “They Dream” or haunting to bright “Memory Heart”. Shadows fill back-to-back “Demon” and “Way Off”, while slow, overarching effects take the following final two pieces, “Dissolve the Walls” and “You Don’t Need the World”.

Even electronica holds to some music industry stereotypes, like the breakthrough album followed by the relatively disappointing shift – and that the album after that is the one that determines the act’s staying power. Bear In Heaven are here to stay.

Bear In Heaven – Way Off

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