As evidenced on Planet of Ice, Minus the Bear's corner of the indie rock universe is much like that of Death Cab for Cutie's: smoothly melodic and tinged with all kinds of forward-thinking ephemera. "Knights" is dotted with electronic traces but driven primarily by spiky prog guitar leads and a driving pop hook. Nevertheless, there's also a grandiose side to Minus the Bear that strives for the arena and some kind of Incubus-like world of proggy, expansive guitar enchantment; it's indicated by the wheeling psychedelic accents on "Throwin' Shapes" and the slicing riffs of "Buryin' Luck." "Ice Monster" and "When We Escape" find the band hunkered down into spacy love grooves, while the icy plinks of "Lotus" locate even dreamier musical spaces. This is an album full of interesting harmonics, polished melodies, and singular arrangements, and overall a strong, hypnotic effort from the Seattle band.
A new song of Minus The Bears' third full-length ??Planet Of Ice?? was released for preview. To check out the track "Throwin' Shapes" "Click Here":CHThe album was produced and recorded by the band's ex-keyboard player Matt Bayles and Chris Common at their studio, Red Room, from February to March of 2007.??Planet Of Ice?? will be released 8/21 on Suicide Squeeze.http://myspace.com/minusthebear[C...
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There is a new Minus The Bear mp3 available to download from *Planet of Ice* which is expected for Aug. 21sthttp://www.stereogum.com/archives/mp3/new-minus-the-bear-throwin-shapes.html
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Every now and again I head over to band's websites who I'm expecting an album from. Tonight I checked Minus the Bear's and their second news post is this:"Hey everyone, we're happy to announce that our new studio album, "Planet of Ice" hits stores August 21st! The great folks at Suicide Squeeze will be releasing this mofo. Expect a bitchin' pre-order with lots of special goodies very soon... "...
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Minus the Bear - When We Escape [mp3]I don't know much about this band (other than that they are epic live), but this song is gorgeous. the reason that I'm posting it is because, yesterday, when I was sorting through my things, I came across a post-it with the song title written on it.when I used to work in tech services at my school's library, post-its were everywhere (we had to flag things et...
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there is a mp3 from Minus the Bear's up coming release, Planet of Ice which is due out later this August. wiki reports that the bands ex-keyboarder Matt Bayles produced the album. Bayles is replaced by new keyboardist Alex Rose Dr. L'Ling is a whirling and riffing good track and it has me excited to see how the new album is going to sound. I'm curious, this song has some definetively rocking se...
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It's firday night, around 10:30 and I've just woken up. What a crazy day. Natuarally, the first thing I do after I get some water is fire up my iTunes. I've been listening to this new Minus the Bear album a lot and I honestly think that I have found one of my favorite albums of the year. The new Iron and Wine was good for a few days, but I it got lost in the shuffle of new music because it ...
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I'll have this entire album uploaded within the next week at the rate I'm going.Here is another song that I'm really super duper liking off of the new Minus the Bear album. Once again, this album is out August 21st. When this comes out, you better be in line.
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Minus the Bear's fifth effort, _Planet of Ice_ is even better than their Spanish-self-titled _Menos El Oso_! They keep with the crazy time signatures, often rhythm changes, and provocative lyrics about life in general. However, as mature as the previous album was, the best thing about them is that they keep expanding on maturity. When they first came out they were known for and criticized for t...
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This is without a doubt the greatest minus the bear release of all time.
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| 1 Burying Luck |
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| 2 Ice Monster |
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| 3 Knights |
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| 4 White Mystery |
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| 5 Dr. L'Ling |
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| 6 Part 2 |
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| 7 Throwin' Shapes |
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| 8 When We Escape |
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| 9 Double Vision Quest |
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| 10 Lotus |
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