In the great American spirit of selling you something twice, Brooklyn-based post-cool quartet Bear In Heaven — hot off last year’s critical acclaim of their full-length Beast Rest Forth Mouth — have gone ahead and presupposed their status as mainstay authorities and curated a track-by-track remix version of that aforementioned record. Among other things, this quasi-new release, which is to be packaged alongside the original and released as a “double album,” is currently affording me the opportunity to use words like “aforementioned,” “presupposed,” and “quasi” with haughty-yet-irreproachable contextual precision. Thank you, Bear In Heaven.
The new release, which will feature the likes of The Field, Justin K. Broadrick (a.k.a. Jesu, Godflesh), Studio, and High Places among others, is all set for a release date of September 14 via Hometapes. It also purports to building “new sonic terrain” and allows me to use the word “purports.” Bullseye.
As if all that wasn’t sensational enough, Bear In Heaven have also just announced a mess of tourdates with Crystal Castles, Twin Sister, and Mountain Man (including performances at NYC’s South Street Seaport, Pitchfork Fest in Chicago, Capitol Hill Block Party, and Austin City Limits); necessitating, among other things, the use of a semicolon and an unprecedented third paragraph to this one-of-a-kind scoop. Can you even believe this pro-ass shit that is happening right now? I, for one, can’t (or should that be “can not”?)
Beast Rest Forth Mouth Remix tracklist:
01. Beast in Peace (The Hundred in the Hands Beast in Beat Remix)
02. Lovesick Teenagers (Twin Shadow Remix)
03. Ultimate Satisfaction (The Field Remix)
04. Wholehearted Mess (Pink Skull Remix)
05. Fake Out (BRAHMS Remix)
06. Drug a Wheel (High Places Remix)
07. Deafening Love (Deru Remix)
08. Dust Cloud (Justin K. Broadrick Remix)
09. You Do You (Studio Remix)
10. Casual Goodbye (Epstein’s Galloping Gertie Remix)
Tourdates:
06.24.10 - Portland, ME - Space
06.25.10 - Winooski, VT - The Monkey House
06.26.10 - Buffalo, NY - Big Orbit’s Soundlab
06.27.10 - Hamden, CT - The Space
07.09.10 - New York, NY - Pier 17 #
07.10.10 - Ottawa, ON - Cisco Systems Bluesfest
07.13.10 - Cambridge, MA - TT The Bear’s Place ^*
07.14.10 - Northhampton, MA - Iron Horse Music Hall ^*
07.15.10 - Toronto, ON - El Mocambo ^*
07.16.10 - Ann Arbor, MI - The Blind Big ^*
07.17.10 - Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival ^
07.17.10 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall ^*
07.19.10 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon ^*
07.20.10 - St. Paul, MN - Turf Club ^*
07.21.10 - Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
07.23.10 - Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party
07.24.10 - Vancouver, BC - The Biltmore Cabaret ^
07.25.10 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir ^
07.26.10 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop ^
07.27.10 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo ^
07.29.10 - Denver, CO - Hi Dive ^
07.30.10 - Lawrence, KS - Replay Lounge ^
07.31.10 - St. Louis, MO - The Luminary Center for the Arts ^
08.02.10 - Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop ^
08.06.10 - Berlin, Germany - Festaal Kreuzberg
08.08.10 - Katowice, Poland - OFF Festival
08.10.10 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega - w. Oh No Ono
08.11.10 - Oslo, Norway - Blaa (Oya Club Night)
08.12.10 - Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West
08.13.10 - Arhus, Denmark - Musickaffen - w. Sleepy Sun
08.14.10 - Haldern, Germany - Haldern Pop
08.15.10 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melweg - w. Sleepy Sun
08.16.10 - Dresden, Germany - Beatpol
08.18.10 - Frankfurt, Germany - Ponyhof
08.21.10 - London, UK - X0Y0
08.22.10 - Powys, UK - Green Man Festival
08.23.10 - Edinburgh, UK - Capital - Fringe Festival
08.24.10 - Belfast, Ireland - Speakeasy
08.25.10 - Dublin, Ireland - Crawdaddy’s
08.26.10 - Leeds, UK - Leeds Festival
09.07.10 - Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom %
09.08.10 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade (Heaven Room) %
09.09.10 - Orlando, FL - Club at Firestone %
09.11.10 - Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Music Festival
09.12.10 - Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
09.29.10 - Ithaca, NY - Castaways ^
09.30.10 - Montreal, QC - Pop Montreal ^
10.09.10 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits
# Zola Jesus
^ Twin Sister
* Mountain Man
% Crystal Castles
• Bear In Heaven: http://www.bearinheaven.com
• Hometapes: http://www.home-tapes.com
[Photo: MySpace]
