Album Review: Bear in Heaven — consequenceofsound.net

Bear in Heaven are releasing their fourth LP on Dead Oceans, not DFA, but their organic analog approach to making dance rock aligns with the James Murphy ethos. It wasn’t always that way. With each successive album, Bear in Heaven sound more like The Rapture and less like Neu!, and their fourth LP, Time Is Over One Day Old, continues that trend. It’s a catchy, well-produced record with occasionally beautiful atmospherics. Yet it’s also full of glossy synths and predictable drum parts that lazily reinforce disco revival cliches. In essence, Bear in Heaven have become really good at imitation, but really bad at giving their listeners any insight into who they are and what they stand for.

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