In a high-concept PR prank that rivaled that time when Akron/Family intentionally leaked experimental versions of their S/T II LP, Brooklyn psych-synth outfit Bear in Heaven are in the midst of streaming their forthcoming album, I Love You, It's Cool via their website.
Only, it's being streamed but the once, slowed down to roughly 400,000% the speed; so that the album plays a single time —as some pained drone— between December and its April 3 release.
"The Reflection of You," the first non-slowed-down listen to the follow-up to 2009's Beast Rest Forth Mouth, shows they've been applying pitch-shifting to their jams, too. "There's nothing left between us, so dance with me" Jon Philpot croons; each "dance with me" repeated with draining-away emotion, his voice slowed down, and dragged/drugged out with each recurring apperance.
Lyrically and musically, "The Reflection of You" makes plentiful references to the dancefloor; in a way that's both oblique and genuine. "If you can dance with me/I think you will like my moves," Philpot sings, "if you get next to me/I will have nothing left to prove."
Bear in Heaven, "The Reflection of You"
Photo © Shawn Brackbill
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Yes! Bear In Heaven are so underrated. ty!