Bear in Heaven

YES!!!

There is a BEAUTIFUL surge of mid-tempo, R&B-infused electro going on right now . . .and I couldn't be happier. Washed Out, Toro y Moi, Little Dragon, and perhaps now Bear in Heaven.

"Lovesick Teenagers" is magic. Just wait until you hear the chords when the chorus comes in! it's that type of synth that's big without being heavy and overbearing. It gives you (or maybe just me) that strange, floating-head feeling that comes when this type of jam is done at its best.

"Wholehearted Mess" is another jewel. Not the open-air flight of "Lovesick Teenagers", it has its own appeal. In some ways it sounds like two songs stacked on top of eachother. Underneath is a jumping, neon strobe, disco charger...but layered on top is a calmer, almost Phoenix-like vocal. It meshes strangely, but well.

Shit...disco may be gone, and the indie-garage sound may have fallen right behind it, but if this is the next "movement" that the world's cool kids are serving up, I am 100% down.

P.S. - Seriously, how fuckin' crazy are the keys in the chorus for "Lovesick Teenager"?!