Minus The Bear- Voids
Minus The Bear- Voids
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Label: Suicide Squeeze
Released 2017
On their sixth album VOIDS, MINUS THE BEAR started with a blank slate, and inadvertently found themselves applying the same starting-from-scratch strategies that fueled their initial creative process. Album opener "Last Kiss" immediately establishes the band's renewed fervor. An appropriately dizzying guitar line plunges into a propulsive groove before the chorus unfolds into a multi-tiered pop chorus. From there the album flows into "Give & Take", a tightly wound exercise in syncopation that recalls the celebratory pulse of early BEAR classics like "Fine + 2 Pts" while exploring new textures and timbres. By the time the band reaches album closer "Lighthouse," they've traversed so much sonic territory that the only appropriate tactic left at their disposal is a climactic crescendo, driven at its peak by Cory Murchy's thunderous bass. Not since Planet of Ice's "Lotus" has the Bear achieved such an epic finale. All in all, it’s an album that reminds us of everything that made us fall in love with MINUS THE BEAR in the first place, and a big part of that appeal is the sense that the band is heading into uncharted territories.
Track Listing:
- Last Kiss
- Give & Take
- Call the Cops
- Invisible
- What About the Boat?
- Silver
- Tame Beasts
- Erase
- Robotic Heart
- Lighthouse
