New Bear In Heaven - "Lovesick Teenagers"

After the recent deaths of '80s musical movie icons John Hughes and Patrick Swayze, an ebulliently downcast and darkly triumphant song that reminds us lovesick teenagers "don't ever die / they will live forever" sounds like the anthem of '09. It's meant metaphorically -- you have that teenager in you "even when you're too old / and you think you know more" -- but that doesn't take away the track's power. It's the work of the Jon Philpot-fronted Brooklyn (via Georgia and Alabama) quartet Bear In Heaven and feels instantly familiar, not just because you might be reminded of Yeasayer or Suckers (or the Bee Gees). "Lovesick Teenagers" is one of those rare songs that feels fully formed even when you're absorbing it for the first time.

Bear In Heaven - "Lovesick Teenagers" (MP3)
(Via @EdwardDroste)

"Lovesick Teenagers" appears on Bear's second proper full-length Beast Rest Forth Mouth. In case you want some more, here's the album's first single.

Bear In Heaven - "Wholehearted Mess" (MP3)

Beast Rest Forth Mouth is out 10/13 via Hometapes. "Wholehearted Mess" is out now on a Hometapes 12" EP that includes remixes of the track by Pink Skull, Max Brannslokker, and Arclike.

Posted at 4:22 PM by brandon in Album Art, MP3
Tags: Bear In Heaven

8 Comments

So because Ed Droste is going crazy for this song you're gonna call it the anthem of '09? If that's the case then 2009 must have been very bland

Posted by: Evan at 09/15/09 4:38 PM  | Reply
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Nah, I mean on an emotional/thematic level.

Posted by: brandon  in reply to Evan's comment at 09/15/09 4:46 PM  | Reply
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Kinda seems like you just want to criticize it on the basis of its indie cred.

I really like the song for its own sake, regardless of which currently hyped musicians endorse or don't endorse it.

Posted by: Ben  in reply to Evan's comment at 12/14/09 8:36 AM  | Reply
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Loving this song. And the wholehearted song also. Both sound great.

Posted by: Ronald at 09/15/09 5:30 PM  | Reply
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such a cool sound!

Posted by: coop at 09/15/09 8:13 PM  | Reply
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Sounds more 80s to me than Suckers or Yeasayer...and I like it for that.

Posted by: glazzy at 09/15/09 9:34 PM  | Reply
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wake me up when someone makes a song better than rainwater cassette exchange this year.

Posted by: aaron at 09/16/09 12:58 AM  | Reply
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the first 8 seconds of wholehearted mess reminds me of modest mouse convenient parking

Posted by: aurelie at 09/20/09 4:55 PM  | Reply
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