The Bear Quartet – “Millions”
You can’t truly get Swedish indie music without knowing the Bear Quartet. I guess anyone would say this about one of their faves, but yeah: their music idiosyncratically shoves boundaries but still touches base with traditional pop conventions. In doing so,it has been informing the country’s bands over the course of about 20 years.
Their 13th album, 89, just came out on Adrian. “Millions” is its first single. It’s got some intense, repetitive patterns that seem to be going around lately as world music-influenced bands have zeroed in on that particular aspect of world music. But the Bear Quartet are not jumping on a trend – their 2005 “Birds are Singing” is a crazier example of that mesmerizing/potentially annoying repetition. It’s one of my favorites from their discography.
The Bear Quartet – “Birds are Singing Deep Within the Greenery”
Visit the Bear Quartet on their site or MySpace.
Get 89 at Klicktrack, Adrian Recordings’ shop, iTunes, or Play.
Bonus fun fact: they name their albums with two words, and the first ends with a “y.”
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