Bear Hands - Burning Bush Supper Club (Australian Edition)

Catalogue No:

OTH94020

Label:

Other Tongues

Release Date:

20/5/2011

Format:

2CD

Track Listing

1. Crime Pays
2. Belongings
3. What A Drag
4. High Society
5. Tablasaurus
6. Julien
7. Wicksey Boxing
8. Blood And Treasure
9. Can’t Stick ‘Em
10. Camel Convention
11. Tall Trees
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AUSTRALIAN EDITION BONUS DISC
1. Long Lean Queen (Physical Only)
2. Golden (Physical Only)
3. Sickly Brunette (Physical Only)
4. Bad Blood (Physical Only)
5. Crime Pays (Cereal Spiller Remix)
6. Tablasaurus (Aislyn Remix)
7. Wicksey Boxing (BRAHMS Remix)
8. High Society (Gordon Voidwell Remix)

Info

Dylan Rau started Bear Hands to spite a romantic rival. In disconnecting himself from the love triangle (and successfully copulating with several other humans) he was able to write about 70 new and exciting songs. Joining forces with fellow Wesleyan university alumnus Ted Feldman and iconoclast punk veterans Val Loper and TJ Orscher the band started to stomp live. Both other bands and people in the crowd were stomped regularly and definitively.

Touring became a new way of life for Bear Hands after the 2007 release of their Golden EP. The band opened for MGMT, Vampire Weekend, The XX, Les Savy Fav and spent time on roads all over North America and Europe with now-dear friends Passion Pit, Obits, We Were Promised Jet Packs, Hockey, Manic Street Preachers, and Mayer Hawthorne and The County.

Following the success of their most-recent single “Crime Pays”, Bear Hands delighted weekend warrior crowds at such iconic festivals as Reading, Leeds, Siren, Rockness, and Forecastle. They did shows in Brazil with fellow Brooklynites Chairlift and Telepathe, narrowly escaping with their lives and intestinal parasites.

And now things are really starting to get heavy for Bear Hands. Their debut LP, Burning Bush Supper Club, took over a year to finish, slowed to a crawl by mental illness, intraband resentment, and a generally pervasive sense of indecision. Produced before the watchful eyes of frenemies and industry fat cats alike, Burning Bush Supper Club sees Bear Hands reach unprecedented levels of both truth and relevance.

Australian edition includes bonus disc featuring the ‘Golden EP’ + six previously unreleased remixes from Cereal Spiller, Brahms (Passion Pit), Aislyn, Onestratosphere and Voidwell.

“The newest hardest-working band in New York might just be one of the best” – NME

“Bear Hands – The group you wish you were in” – NME

“…a pitch-perfect pairing of post-punk and indie rock” – SPIN

“Spectacular” – BILLBOARD

“Bear Hands is an ace cacophony of raucous guitars and spluttered vocals” – THE FLY