
Though they're one of many animal-named bands to arise over the last couple years, Bear In Heaven doesn't sound like anybody but themselves. Started as a solo project by Jon Philpot back in Atlanta in '03, the band is now one of the most sonically interesting and critically adored groups rising up on the Brooklyn scene. Cinematic in their approach, BIH create a huge wall of sound that grabs you from the get-go; not by your collar, but insistently from the inside. Dark, drone-y synths mesh with soaring melodies, kept grounded by Joe Stickney’s [...]