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Bearsuit: OH:IO

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by Alex Hegazy

There’s a vocal riot going, with frantic activity on guitars, keyboards and brass. If you puke you might miss the rollercoaster, novelty sandwich toaster of an album opener ‘Jupiter Force [recruitment video]’. Big band Bearsuit sure know how to entertain, and this is their third long player. Five out of the six members of this band take a turn in vocal duties; it’s just drummer Matt Hutchings left to his own devices. All the other zombies, bears and band-standers in the group are multi-instrumentalists, whipping up an over-the-top celebration of musical misrule.

And the feeling runs deep: three of Bearsuit’s line-up, Lisa Horton, Cerian Hutchings and Jan Robertson, also have a keytar-only project called Keytarded. Also in the past they have aptly toured with their Norwich neighbours KaitO, and the much-loved Deerhoof.

Bearsuit’s songs cover a smorgasbord of subject matters, covering issues that range from the search for tangible proof of a soul on steamrolling latest single ‘More Soul than a Wigan Casino’; lizard loving on the shoutily harmonious ‘Dinosaur Heart’; evil gangs of tiny kids on the Melt Banana-like ‘Hark! The Feral Children’; colonising of the solar system on ‘Mission IO Must Not Fail’, which again makes evident a male vocal at work, one which summons the spirit of Graham Coxon. And then there’s love. Yes, even Bearsuit are prone to a bit of romance on ‘The Love Will Never Find You’. If that all sounds a bit much for you, then there is always time for a slow song with sweet trumpet sounds called ‘Look A Bleached Coral Faced Crow With Jewels For Eyes’.

But Bearsuit are at their very best when the ride is fast and scary, like a psycho-killer ghost train ride. Or, the sound of the track ‘Shh Get It Out’. So this lot, then: they’ve got it all. Creative instinct, male and female vocals, and a plethora of instruments and themes. All they need now is your ears.

  • Bearsuit 9 / 10

I have it

and saw them last nite. EXCELLENT!


great band

albeit a bit too smokey


EXCELLENT

good work mr hegazy


good review

amazing band. One of the gigs of the year for definite. I'd go to Cov to see them tomorrow if it weren't a 2 hour train ride with no way back.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4399013116794271182


it's AMAZING

the last two tracks give me goosebumps, and their songs get stuck in my head so much, and they're great live, i love them.





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