- Audio CD (Jan 11 2012)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Hometapes
- ASIN: B002LFPA7A
- In-Print Editions: LP Record
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #32,323 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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One of the most acclaimed breakthrough acts of the last year, Brooklyn's BEAR IN HEAVEN, release their second album 'Beast Rest Forth Mouth' to enormous critical praise. A seed planted in the Southern US years ago (all members hail from Georgia or Alabama), BEAR IN HEAVEN is a four-piece consisting of Jon Philpot, Adam Wills, Sadek Bazaraa and Joe Stickney. Acknowledging the importance of the number four, Beast Rest Forth Mouth (think 'East West North South') is a conscious product of the four compass points (the four makers): four directions could lead you anywhere and everywhere! Brooklyn.
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4.9 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Beast Rest Forth Mouth, Mar 24 2010
By Morton - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beast Rest Forth Mouth (Audio CD)
The atmosphere that is created by this album upon listening (especially with a killer pair of head phones) is out of this world. The minimalistic instrumentation which is overly destored and magnified creates a wall of sound unlike most anything I have ever heard before in my life. Bear In Heaven have reinvented psychedelic pop music with Beast Rest Forth Mouth.Tracks like 'Deafening Love' and 'Wholehearted Mess' are nothing short of stunning. What Bear In Heaven have managed to do on Beast Rest Forth Mouth is take everything bands like Grizzly Bear have done and nearly perfected it. 'Fake Out' is a prime example of such. Easily the most upbeat track on the album, and almost shoe-gaze. It totally has that feel anyway.
I'm waiting to see exactly where Bear In Heaven go on their next release. They're one of those groups that have the potential to keep getting better and better with each release, as well as to grow as more profound artists.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Buy it!, Jan 18 2010
By David Vinson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beast Rest Forth Mouth (Audio CD)
The influences are noticeable, ample, and thankfully not derivative: the minimalism of early Krautrock; Eno's solo LPs, especially "Another Green World"; the expansiveness and drama of the Flaming Lips' "Soft Bulletin"; Wire's early work. "Dust Cloud" sounds to me like a most clever reworking of The Fall's "I am Curious Oranj," intentional or not. That's when you know you've stumbled on a great album: when it demands analysis and conversation. While pitchforkmedia claimed the record was unique because it is comprised of carefully-constructed pop songs, only delivered in the most unusual ways, I think they've sold BiH short. This is a thoroughly captivating record, and with repeated listening, it does warrant the occasional sing along like any good pop record--and yet as whole this music is deliberately too strange to qualify as pop music. The ambivalence in their sound is what makes it such a terrific, special album. I'm still waiting for everyone to catch up--Bear in Heaven are one of the best bands in America.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
THERE IS NO OTHER TROY LEFT FOR ME TO BURN...., Feb 24 2010
By Harkanwar Anand - Published on Amazon.com
This is the best album I have heard in a long time. It beats Wild beasts, Fleet Foxes (maybe too early to say but definitely has the potential) , Band of Horses, Phoenix's last album, Animal Collective and how about if I say Blitzen Trapper. Hmmmm...so you're thinking what else? I don't know if calling this sound indie is doing it justice but not since a song called "snow of 85" and another called "white rabbit" have I heard such a piledriver of a song. I am talking about track 1, which is a song about an adieu. I love how many bands start an album saying goodbye, I don't think it was wonderful old Lifehouse's idea of doing that with Hanging by the moment, but whatever it is, whether it was staind or offspring's Americana, some how the first track does justice to this delightful heartfelt moving collaboration of a record.A beautiful voice sings, Doomsday it's so quiet
You hardly know it's there
Dollars of triumph
They're loaded down some well
Thunder is expanding
Like your face into the ground
Thunder is expanding
And the rate will wear you down
The best times were better
When you didn't need to think
The eagle or monster
Is pulling down our feet.
Lovesick Teenagers has potential to be the best song which launches this band into a switch. The best album in a long time. Terribly addictive music. For everyone who ever foot-tapped to a jangling guitar.
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