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True fans of music spend countless hours searching for that next great song, album or artist, whether it be online or in a local record shop. The beautiful thing about music in today's age is that technology has created an infinite supply of great music that is available to us at the click of a mouse. How perfect is that? We can discover a brand new artist on the opposite side of the globe in seconds without a radio or a music television channel. It only makes sense that a website so dedicated to this gorgeous universe of music would [...]

True fans of music spend countless hours searching for that next great song, album or artist, whether it be online or in a local record shop. The beautiful thing about music in today's age is that technology has created an infinite supply of great music that is available to us at the click of a [...]

Artist : Message To Bears Title : Folding Leaves Label : Dead Pilot Records Release Date : January 16th BUY IT Written by Tom Johnson I've really struggled to write this review. Which is in no way meant as a negative comment against either the artist or their work, but is perhaps reflective of the overall [...]

A new video directed by John Owen for the new Message To Bears track 'Mountains', taken from his upcoming second album Folding Leaves . Happy New Year. Folding Leaves is released January 18th on Dead Pilot Records. -James Godwin, January 2nd, 2011 Copyright © 2011. Informal Flick-Thru . All rights reserved. Filed under: Music , Video Tagged: [...]

Them fellers over at BLBX have cooked up another one and this time it's member Jermainesoul 's 're-design' of a rather ace Message To Bears track. I'm not sure what a re-design is, but it sounds very pretty. Message to Bears - At A Glance (Jermainesoul Re-Design) by JermaineSoul You can hear the original here too: Message to Bears - At a [...]
Message To Bears - Mountains

Our friends over at Message to Bears have sent word about their attempt to raise money for their new album - Folding Leaves - via IndieGoGo , and so we thought we'd pass it along to you. The band is hoping to raise about $4,000 for their new album (on Dead Pilot Records) , and seems to be about halfway there. We've written before about Message to Bears, and would be very happy to see the band come through with another record. So, if you're curious, check out that IndieGoGo page [...]

When one contemplates the sound of a water droplet amongst the calm dew of a picturesque morning, Message To Bears is that sound. When the sun rises over a humble slow loris stretching nimbly beneath a branch in Southeast Asia, Message To Bears reverberates below the tree-tops. As much as I adore the good stuff, bedroom producers constructing careful but blatant electronica with their Reasons and their Logics is becoming a little too familiar. Here we have Message To Bears, aka Jerome Alexander, fabricating natural soundscapes with acoustic instrumentation. Awash with emotive [...]

I've written about the excellent music of Message to Bears before , and now I've got some good news for those of you who missed out on their debut LP: Departures . Dan from Message to Bears has just written to let me know that the original is being re-released on vinyl from Dead Pilot Records . It's a limited pressing of an excellent record, and I definitely encourage you to check it out! You can hear some of Message to Bears' music by visiting Bandcamp , or heading on over to MySpace . Or, [...]

Today it dawned on me that we are nearly halfway through our allotted time to pick three artists from the 160 we have been entrusted to judge for the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition. I'll admit, at times I have grimaced, but not as often as I expected to; the competition standard is much higher than I imagined it would be. There are certain artists that we have written about in the past that I wish were on our list, but the random nature at least means that the judging is going to be totally fair. When I first [...]

Words: Gareth O'Malley It's always something of an experience listening to a song that sounds so fragile it seems it could fall apart at any moment. Soundscapes like this don't come along all that often, so deserve to be treasured when they do. The new song from Message to Bears (aka Oxford's Jerome Alexander ) falls into this esteemed category. 'Mountains' is a beautiful song, though there's some tension lurking beneath the surface, almost imperceptible at first, but becoming more easily sensed as the as the track progresses. A simple, plucked guitar [...]

Sometimes, we need a break. As someone who is nearing the end / seventeenth fresh start of his Ph.D. thesis, this statement applies to me most of the time. In moments like this, I like to turn to bands like The Album Leaf , Sigur Rós , and similar masters of ambiance. But every now and again, I need something new to help me take the edge off. Enter: Message to Bears . Message to Bears is actually Jerome Alexander, a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from the U.K. Those instruments, myspace tells us, are "acoustic guitars, [...]

There's a distinct difference between 'best albums of the year' and 'favorite albums of the year.' Who am I to say what is the 'best' album? What makes an album better than the other? You've probably already figured out that I'm trying to say that music taste is subjective. The past 12 months have probably been one of the better years in music in a while. There were albums that defined genres (Merriweather Post Pavilion), albums that reinvented the bands sound (The Hazards of Love), albums that majorly disappointed (Mama, I'm Swollen), and albums that became a sign of what's [...]

picture by Owen Stegemann Marsen Jules – Couer Saignant from Red, Green, Blue & Other Summer Feelings (Sutemos010) (2005) picture by Marisa Nelson Message to Bears – running through woodland [...]

Experience the melancholic but also fulfilling mood, being far away from home. An endless longing for everything familiar, searching for the peace of mind on a trip through unknown worlds. Get in touch with Volume 7 of Skeksis86 free download sampler and feel free to reach landscapes far away from home with ten unknown groups from ambient, acoustic and post rock underground. More than fifty minutes of deep and minimalistic music, created to express the inner feelings, when you're finding yourself. Release: May 2009 Genre: Acoustic, Post Rock, Ambient [...]

Illustration by Jason Sho Green 'Bears are crazy. They'll bite your head if you're wearing a steak on it.' -> Space Ghost * Bearsuit - Itsuko Got Married * * Seabear - Singing Arc * * Panda Bear - Ponytail * * Message to Bears - Plane Over Evening Sky * * Golden Bear - Galaxy Queen * * Grizzly Bear - While [...]

Instrumental Tuesday is here! Being in work can sometimes be a bit of a nightmare, even more so when it is getting late in the day and all you can think about is home time and Lego. In these situations the only thing that gets me through is instrumental tracks, and I have no idea why. I do love a good instrumental and there have been more and more mainstream instrumental bands cropping up. I love the almost euphoric sense of Explosions in the Sky (both a Winter and a Summer band....) and the Cinematic [...]

March: Amon Tobin, Foley Room [Ninja Tune, 2007] Style: Experimental RIYL: Autechre, Matmos Amon Tobin returns with a collection of music based on found sounds, using instruments in irregular ways, and an altogether different approach of sampling and composition. His most ambitious work to date, Amon succeeds in expanding his palette once again, moving further away from his jazz and [...]