LP: Bear in Heaven: I Love You, It's Cool (2012)

After the release of their second album, 2010’s Beast Rest Forth Mouth, big things
began to happen for the Brooklyn trio of Jon Philpot, Joe Stickney and AdamWills,
from the aforementioned accolades to an electrifying collection of remixes featuring
some of electronic music’s heaviest hitters, like The Field and Studio. As if in
a transatlantic dream, they even split a single with Norway’s Lindstrøm and
Christabelle, who covered their calling card, “Lovesick Teenagers.”
But Bear in Heaven didn’t settle for the new well of notoriety they’d opened.
Rather, they played some 200 shows in support of Beast Rest Forth Mouth— touring
the world, playing bigger rooms, building an intricate stage show that turned
an album into a
synesthetic experience.When it was over, they retrenched in Brooklyn and, during
the dead of summer, retreated to a chilly practice space to work harder than they’d
ever worked on any other project. They wrote, re-wrote, arranged, re-arranged,
spending days or weeks building one song at a time. After months of testing their
limits and trusting their instincts, Bear in Heaven emerged with I Love You, It’s
Cool, an album so vivid and visionary that it meets and even exceeds the confidence
and calm its title suggests.