Bear In Heaven / Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Album: Beast Rest Forth Mouth   Collection:General
Artist:Bear In Heaven   Added:Oct 2009
Label:Hometapes  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2010-02-21 Pull Date: 2010-04-25
Week Ending: Apr 11 Apr 4 Mar 28 Mar 21 Mar 14 Feb 28
Airplays: 1 2 1 3 2 3

Recent Airplay
1. May 21, 2015: A Visit From Drum
Beast In Peace
4. Feb 21, 2013: Ghost Trees
Casual Goodbye
2. Aug 13, 2014: 8-13-3014
Wholehearted Mess
5. Oct 28, 2010: And Other Useful Bibles
Fake Out
3. Mar 15, 2013: FOLKTRONICA
Wholehearted Mess
6. Oct 20, 2010: Tweeee Timee
Ultimate Satisfaction

Album Review
Trent Kay
Reviewed 2010-02-15
For fans of Le Collectivo des Bananimal, Clap Yr Hands Say Waaa, da Fwaming Whips. Thankfully unpretentious psychedelic indie pop that goes deeper and darker than aforementioned contempos (ie, pulls all the way back to Dark Side). Cry-out vocals a la Clap Your Hands..., Born Ruffians, or even, dear god, the Unicorns. Big, complicated, soundscapey instrumentation. Synth, space noise, tappy drums. Very, very good.

Second full-length (and third release) from a Brooklyn-based band founded and fronted by Jon Philpot. Apparently their album-to-album odyssey (ie, maturation) has been pretty impressive, but I’m only familiar with this record.

try: 5, 4, 3, 9, 8, 2
FCC: 8?

1. driving, yet not-too-fast jungle beat. pitch-above beatles! very 60s.
*2. uptempo, springy beat. smooth airy vocals. as happy and poppy a track as this record has to offer. abrupt end --> could play with next track, or crossfade.
*3. oh, look what fell off the alan parsons wagon. hypnotic close-step keys + swirler synth with an 80s veneer.
*4. forbidding two-tone keys and draggy vocals. pink floydian chorus.
*5. broody pushy synth backing under sky-high vocals. awesome reachy chorus.
6. soft start. on the hypnotic (ie, ‘severin severin’) side. minimalist, mellow. breath-per-syllable vocals.
7. swampy, ploddy, heavy machinery sound. verses eerily evocative of... wait for it... “my sharona”. long fade.
*8. FCC? spurs-on hangman drums & random classic rock electric. dark and down-in-it synthy landscape. promo sticker says FCC warning, but i don’t understand any of the lyrics.
*9. fast, loopy. repetitive but completely engaging. great synth strokes.
10. busy drums/keys + spaceship noise. feeling the floyd. ends 10 seconds out.

Track Listing
1. Beast In Peace   6. Dust Cloud
2. Wholehearted Mess   7. Drug A Wheel
3. You Do You   8. Deafening Love
4. Lovesick Teenagers   9. Fake Out
5. Ultimate Satisfaction   10. Casual Goodbye