Polar Bear

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-02-17 rating:
Album review
This latest album review is another interesting listen from the great guys from Polar Bear. Personally preferred the previous album "Held on the Tips of Fingers" but there are still enough enjoyable moments to this record. For the full experience though you really should try and get to see them live. I saw them at a small venue in Leicester and even entered a little oriental food based banter with Seb Rochford the drummer. Man it's a good thing he knows his beats better than he knows his dim sum!


review by: date: 2008-07-21 rating:
Excellent third album from genius jazzers
Apparently recorded in late 2006 but not released until now, Mercury-nominated Polar Bear's third album is also their longest, and sees them making increasing use of electronics to add texture to their music. Songs like Goodbye dissolve from the kind of tuneful, genre-hopping upbeat cool jazz we recognise as Polar Bear's signature sound into a cloud of low-key electronic droning before transforming seamlessly into the following track, while Voices is out-and-out ambient jazz, and good with it. All the while Polar Bear weave through bop, fusion, free and any other kind of jazz they fancy with scant regard for conservative classicism, proving themselves yet again to be about the best band in the world in any musical field. Awesome.

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