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8.0
68044
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A record that nurtures and works around feeling, clawing its hooks deep wherever you lay most vulnerable
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8.0
68045
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A less is more approach, the understated subtlety of which results in their best album to date
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8.0
68046
8.0 |
The 405
Not so much breaking up with old ways of thinking as redefining and refining them, Bear In Heaven have gone back to what they do best
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8.0
68087
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
A brazen and workmanlike confidence marks the album as a more recognizable creative evolution than its predecessor's endearing, but ultimately canned, artistic departure
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8.0
68048
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Bear in Heaven use minimal instrumentation to create an unfolding, generous work that ultimately sounds quite celestial
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8.0
68049
8.0 |
The FT
A modern kind of psychedelia carried along by loping indie dance beats
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7.5
68164
7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
While Time isn’t a massive overhaul, Bear in Heaven tweaked where they needed to, and picked up a pretty neat trick along the way. The more you listen to these songs, the more they linger
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7.0
68289
7.0 |
PopMatters
There’s always something missing, a mystery hanging in the air, yet it’s the band’s most satisfying album yet
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7.0
68090
7.0 |
NME
Sees them strip back their once busy electropop, exposing a soulful, synthetic heart
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7.0
68095
7.0 |
Under The Radar
Seems to take a step back, acknowledging the whole body of work but reintegrating just a pinch of those early (welcome) excesses, along with a decidedly more introspective and impenetrable vibe
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7.0
68144
7.0 |
Exclaim
It's foggy post-pop — skittering prog-percussion and swampy synths bolstering Jon Philpot's high, airy voice as he vents and lets go of his past
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7.0
68161
7.0 |
Spin
Down to earth it is not: These deep but compact space jams can't get much higher
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6.7
68167
6.7 |
Earbuddy
The thrills are few and far between while the band’s once inventive vigor sounds almost repetitive
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6.0
68246
6.0 |
State
Works well as a collection of avant-garde, ambient rock singles, but ultimately fails to inspire as a larger body of work
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6.0
68295
6.0 |
The Skinny
A band still finding their way perhaps, but rarely missing their mark
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6.0
68321
6.0 |
Beardfood
The flow is nice enough, but there's nothing you'll remember a year from now
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6.0
68166
6.0 |
The Music
This album hasn’t the stand-out “hit factor” Beast Rest Forth Mouth did, but there’s enough disco-flecked sound here to please
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5.9
68086
5.9 |
Pitchfork
It’s tasteful, electronic indie as ambient music, and when you lean into it, it rarely pushes back
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5.0
69567
5.0 |
Uncut
There's a lot to get lost in, but much of it overproduced and underwritten. Print edition only
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5.0
68162
5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Unsurprisingly, the record works best when Bear in Heaven tap back into the krautrock roots of earlier albums like 2009’s Beast Rest Forth Mouth
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4.0
68047
4.0 |
The Guardian
Caught in a musical no-man's land
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