Bear Bones
Oil and Lacquer (download)
By Bernhard Bessing • Jun 4th, 2010 • Category:
short players
A very Scottish-sounding band, Bear Bones take both the legacy of Postcard and Belle and Sebastian and – alongside contemporaries like Broken Records and My Latest Novel – make a thickly-accented folk sound, one that swaggers and swings, like a Glaswegian full of Dutch courage.
Meanwhile, the lyrics reveal a darker tone -“let’s get up and go down to the place where she drowned”, like a murder ballad for the CSI generation. The confidence however is not misplaced as this is clearly a band who could be going places.
Bernhard Bessing
