Fitting for an album whose title references the four main navigational directions, Bear In Heaven’s second LP Beast Rest Forth Mouth charts the familiar-feeling customs of the psychadelic dub-pop genre, although in an intriguingly fresh new way.

Capturing the input, inspiration and ‘collective consciousness of the 4 headed organism,’ Bear In Heaven’s music


feels fresh simply because it resists easy categorization, which is perhaps the perfect dénouement for a record that defies easy description and never goes quite where you think it will.

A weighty psychedelic gloom permeates the ten tracks, crafting the same huge sounds present on their first album, but this time gaining candor through a spiky pop edge.

Taking a deep plunge into murky waters previously explored by MGMT, obvious comparisons can be drawn between the two bands, however Beast Rest Forth Mouth rarely attempts to peddle the kind of instant-pleasure-point melodic textures of soundtrack-friendly hits like Kids and Time To Pretend.








The only exception being Lovesick Teenagers, an infectious dance track which










more than meets the requirements for 2010’s epic song about tortured young romance.

Bear In Heaven has made a significant leap in the past two years, going from ‘band to watch’ to a heavy hitter in just one move. With this masterfully crafted second album, the talented outfit pulls the rare trick of making music that is actually progressive, moving outside the boundaries of the cliched 'prog-rock' stereotype.