The
Bear Quartet - Personality Crisis
 Artist: The
Bear Quartet
Title: Personality Crisis
Catalog#: WeCD158
Price: $13.25
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Tracks
on this CD: |
| Mom
and Dad |
| Lights
Out, Sound Off |
| Placard |
| I
Remember Nights Wide Open |
| Punks |
| Volksblues |
| Damn
You, All Of You |
| P.R.
Guy |
| The
End Of the Tunnl Is Lightyears Away |
| Leaning
Against A Parked Car |
| Human
Enough |
| Same
Old C/O |
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The
Bear Quartet’s entire catalog comes highly recommended
by Jim! One of the finest “undiscovered” bands in
existence today. The follow-up to The Bear Quartet’s ‘Moby
Dick’ is their brilliant seventh album, ‘Personality
Crisis’ from 1998, featuring former Soundtrack Of Our Lives
guitarist Bjorn Olsson. If The Soundtrack Of Our Lives are the
classic rock resurrectionists of Scandinavia, then The Bear Quartet
are the fey proto-pop overlords…Sweden’s answer to
Badly Drawn Boy, Guided By Voices, and Radiohead. They are not
a “retro” act; they simply write gorgeous, catchy
pop songs full of fierce wit and melancholy, tuning in and turning
on to their classic pop influences (The Smiths, The Beatles,
Go-Betweens, Prefab Sprout, Teenage Fanclub, Neil Young, and
The Velvets) while constantly redefining what they do and why
they choose to do it, now 16 years since they started playing
together. With the aforementioned ‘Moby Dick’ in
1997 the Bear Quartet had found their voice and started writing
the kind of songs Travis and Badly Drawn Boy would put together
years later, long after BQ were already There. ‘Personality
Crisis’ is fueled by the joyous, cathartic rush of voices
and strings and grand arrangements… From the cheery my-first-orgasm
introspection of “Mom And Dad” to the epic 60s garage
stomp of “The End of the Tunnel is Light Years Away” to
the strummy heartstring-tugging “Human Enough”. For
this album The Bear Quartet welcomed two new “cubs”,
Blissful’s Calle Olsson and former Union Carbide Production/Soundtrack
Of Our Lives guitarist Bjorn Olsson, who’s electric and
12-string guitars, lush harmonies, organ and harmonica informed ‘Personality
Crisis’ with shades of the same elemental magick as his
solo work.
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