Minus The Bear - "My Time"

[jvandyck87]

This is the first single off their upcoming album Omni due out May 4th. No official add date yet, but their myspace says it's the first single, and several alternative stations' Music and Program Directors chose "My Time" among their hot picks this week. This is their first release through Dangerbird (the label Silversun Pickups is on) so this could potentially be their first album to have some success at radio.

The track can be heard on their myspace: www.myspace.com/minusthebear

[(Artie Ziff)]

Heard on the Promo Only this morning. Nothing amazing, but with two Bears, and Elephant, and some Monkey on the disc, April is the month of the animals.

[jvandyck87]

Yeah I know what you mean, but some of the stuff off one of their earlier albums Menos El Oso, is incredible, especially "Drilling" and "The Game Needed Me". I don't know their other stuff too well.

Who was the other bear band, Artie?

[(Artie Ziff)]

Grizzly Bear's Two Weeks is going out again in April.

[jvandyck87]

Ahhh ok. I figured it'd be something by them, but I didn't think that they'd re-release their single.

[(Artie Ziff)]

I guess if Phoenix can do it 12 months later, anyone can?

[(Artie Ziff)]

Not to mention a Butterfly, an Alligator, and a Crow appear on the same CD.

[Amnesiac]

I like Minus the Bear quite a bit, but this didn't grab me the first few times I listened to it. I'm slowly warming up to it, though.

I bet the album will be pretty good though. Their last one, "Planet of Ice" was one of my favorite albums of 2007. I remember that the single from it, "Knights", got some airplay on some of the more indie-leaning alternative stations, but I don't think it ever troubled the Top 50 on Mediabase.

This song is a bit more synthy than the stuff they usually do, so maybe it will do better than I think it'll do.

[halo19]

Finally listened to this recently, after hearing of them for years. Not bad.

[singingrulebritannia]

It's definitely not bad. In fact, it's fairly good. I'm not sure if I would get an album consistently of 'just over the hump' quality, though. And since I'm one of those dorks who waits until release date to review a whole album, and that date is almost a month off, I'm going to have to put some effort into remembering to do so.

[Shadows in the Dark]

I thought it wasn't too bad as well.

[jvandyck87]

"The Game Needed Me" "Knights" are really awesome songs from earlier albums. Those have more of the WOW factor while "My Time" is just very above average.

[Amnesiac]

man, I like this more and more every time I hear it, but I still don't like at much as their best stuff like "Knights" and "Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!!".

[My Life Is A Stereo]

I can honestly say I've never even heard of this band until I saw the posting of this song. Just out of curiosity I went and checked out the "Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!!" song and I'm sad I missed out on this before but I have to say you'd never actually hear the song at a monkey knife fight.....:)

"My Time" reminds me of something very new wave 80's, like Tears For Fears or Alphaville.

[Amnesiac]

yeah, the band used to give their songs non-indicative, humorous names (others included "Hey! Is That A Ninja Up There?" and "Thanks For The Killer Game Of Crisco® Twister") but they stopped doing that a couple albums ago.

[Nicholas2.0]

Speaking of Crisco Twister, MTV News was on hand to capture a game consisting of members of Nirvana and the Smashing Pumpkins (pre-Siamese Dream!). Just saw this last month.



Krist was feeling no pain. :)

[jvandyck87]

This officially goes for adds at Alternative May 3rd via FMQB.

[Adam (UTR)]

I don't usually post in the Alternative forum, but...

This band is headlining our Spring Weekend concert on Saturday and I'm really liking the song at the moment. I didn't really know about them until I heard this song, but, I'm enjoying them.

[lockebox]

You can download this for free at Alternativeaddicton

www.alternativeaddiction.com/downloads/downloads.asp?id=1077