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8.3
39602
8.3 |
Pretty Much Amazing
This album demands a very large space, and any hallucinogen of your choosing
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8.0
39707
8.0 |
Paste Magazine
It’ll have to grow on you, but once it does, there’s no denying its enchantment
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8.0
39535
8.0 |
Under The Radar
Filled with sharply written hooks, albeit unorthodox ones
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8.0
39537
8.0 |
Prefix
Another album of ebullient jams
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8.0
41053
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Bear in Heaven may be on a self-described path to “take the pop song and ruin it” but they may just have inadvertently done the opposite here and conquered it
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8.0
41543
8.0 |
BBC
Longevity might ultimately be an issue, but if we're living in the moment – as the superb title of this record seems to suggest we do – then who cares? Just dance
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7.7
40118
7.7 |
Beats Per Minute
It’s unabashedly fun, even when it’s melancholy, and it’s particularly rewarding when it reaches its blown-out M83 moments, inciting some hand-to-God fist pumps
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7.5
39700
7.5 |
Pitchfork
Admirable in large part because its ambitions are every bit as subtle and difficult to quantify as its pleasures
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7.0
40250
7.0 |
Spin
Weird waves of Johnny Hates Jazz/When In Rome lost-in-the-supermarket pop, saved by brawny drums
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7.0
39722
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
More appealing than the retro-heavy work of many of their fellow Brooklynites
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7.0
39771
7.0 |
PopMatters
When Bear in Heaven’s desire for duality—the confluence of ambience and pop—succeeds, it does so brilliantly
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7.0
39851
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A pop record at heart, reining in some of the proggier tendencies whilst remaining expansive and interesting.
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7.0
39538
7.0 |
The Fly
Refreshingly repetitive
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7.0
39551
7.0 |
Uncut
Electro-rockers get their groove back. Print edition only
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7.0
39536
7.0 |
Bowlegs
A record of stunningly upbeat, silky synth-line
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7.0
41281
7.0 |
hhv.de mag
Albums should be enjoyable and this definitely is a piece of ear candy with its innocent, psychadelic tunes that swirl around effortlessly
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6.0
39533
6.0 |
musicOMH
Too many tracks consist of synths that are one dimensional and lack any killer hook
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6.0
40106
6.0 |
No Ripcord
Bursts with vibrancy and tang
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5.0
39704
5.0 |
Slant Magazine
Fails to deliver on the promise of Beast Rest Forth Mouth, knocking Bear in Heaven back a tier or two in the race for indie electro-pop supremacy
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5.0
39576
5.0 |
A.V. Club
As a band of technical experimentalists, Bear In Heaven fiddles endlessly and shows little restraint
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4.0
39599
4.0 |
The Skinny
The band's third longplayer continues the trend of churning out glacial and bland compositions set by its predecessors
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4.0
39550
4.0 |
Q
There are other bands doing this sort of dark drama with more guile. Print edition only
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4.0
39534
4.0 |
Rave Magazine
This is not an album that makes use of hooks or catchy riffs, the songs more or less blur into one another amongst a sea of ambivalent electronic soundscapes
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