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Minus The Bear - Lost Loves Album Review
By Andy Peterson in Music Reviews on 04 December 2014
Getting excited about indie pop albums these days isn't exactly easy to do, so when Seattle five-piece Minus the Bear (the daft name has a kinda rude derivation - look it up) announced they were about to release an odds n' sods compilation, Contact Towers wasn't exactly hitting refresh every 30 seconds.
Having had our asses kicked, everyone's ready for a breather. It's at this point that singer Jake Snider attempts to woo, the imploring soul of 'Invented Memory' sounding - whisper it quietly - like early Maroon 5 without the sex. 'Lost Loves' otherwise is short on experimentation, and its major shortcoming is that most of it lacks a specific identity. Perhaps this is due to a some of our misapprehensions: Minus The Bear write music that's multi-faceted but not deliberately complex, not as some would have you believe avalanches of twitchy, mad professor time signatures or soul-baring tales of raw emotion.
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