Album art by Sadek Bazaraa

The first single from our new record, I Love You, It’s Cool, is out!  Check it here on Pitchfork. Listen on Sound Cloud or download an mp3 here.  Tour dates are listed in the Live section, check em.

http://pitchfork.com/news/45074-listen-to-the-new-bear-in-heaven-track-the-reflection-of-you/

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/in-the-studio-with-bear-in-heaven-20120110

http://www.spin.com/articles/bear-heaven-aim-more-groove-less-doom-april-lp?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Progress Report!

http://stereogum.com/899982/progress-report-bear-in-heaven/franchises/progress-report/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/12/17/143840101/bear-in-heaven-experiment-with-longest-slowest-album-stream-ever

“We like the way it sounds, for one. It’s quite hypnotic. We also like that we’re experiencing it along side the audience. We haven’t heard the whole thing obviously, so every hour is a surprise to us. I think that may be the best part. The shared experience/experiment.”

Time stretching warps songs into sprawling blurs

1. the desire to release a companion piece of music that was more abstract and drone based than the material we had played every night for the last 18 months or will likely play for 18 months straight following the release of this record.

2. an equal desire to have a little lighthearted fun & comment on the current state of album promotion, hype cycles, countdowns and all the marketing ploys that we accept as a reality of existing within an internet age.

At some point these two ideas merged into one. We would stream our album earlier and for longer than anyone else had before but we’d stream it once. We’d stretch it far beyond the limits of being recognisable as pop music. Draw it out so that snare roll lasts for days. Invite listeners to interpret & consider each sound. sit back and breathe.

Stereogum “Progress Report”