ARTiST: Seabear
ALBUM: We Built A Fire
BiTRATE: 190kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Morr Music
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 86.11 megs
PLAYTiME: 1h 00min 06sec total
RiP DATE: 2010-02-27
STORE DATE: 2010-02-26
Track List: Disc #1/2
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01. Lion Face Boy 3:35
02. Fire Dies Down 4:34
03. I'll Build You A Fire 3:36
04. Cold Summer 5:35
05. Wooden Teeth 2:42
06. Leafmask 3:11
07. Softship 4:14
08. We Fell Off The Roof 5:28
09. Warm Blood 5:04
10. In Winters Eyes 3:52
11. Wolfboy 4:25
Track List: Disc #2/2
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01. Pocket Knife 2:38
02. Arms 2:36
03. Bright House 3:11
04. Singing Arc 2:29
05. Leafmask II 0:52
06. Doctor 2:04
Release Notes:
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Seabear have improved on all fronts since their 2007 debut, The Ghost That
Carried Us Away. That album was by no means shabby itself, and but on We built A
Fire the Icelandic group have blossomed into a more sonically sturdy entity,
boasting better songs and yet more winningly embellished arrangements. Shades of
Win Butler and Regine Chassagne are apparent at various points over the course
of the album, with great tracks like 'I'll Build You A Fire' and 'Fire Dies
Down' inviting strategic insertion of the word "Arcade" in their titles,
although the similarities between Seabear and the influential Canadians
shouldn't be overstated - you can still imagine these guys stripping back to
basics and having a sing-song in someone's living room. At the heart of the
band's afore-referenced expansive string and brass laden folk-pop arrangements
is the songwriting of Sin Fang Bous fellow Sindri Mar Sigfusson (recently billed
as an "Icelandic Beck" by Rolling Stone magazine), whose acoustic tunesmithery
continues to impress on country-ish jaunts like 'Wooden Teeth' and 'In Winter's
Eyes'. In many ways comparable to the new Tunng album, this sophomore Seabear
outing offers a fine example of ensemble folk-pop grown up, lending an
energetic, communal feel to the music that transmits warmth to the listener.