Pictured: Those are very specifically not the hands of a bear.
Bear Hands just made a debut EP that sounds like Brooklyn youth. The Golden EP is a wasteland of grimy Hot Rod Circuit-esque post-punk and slightly disorienting indie-rock. Guitars are covered in dirty distortion and kept in pace with abusively heavy drums and dance beat choruses. Dylan Rau’s vocals are rough and imperfect, like they were thrown through a hallway or shouted into a megaphone before being caught by a tape recorder. I’d give Ted Leo listeners good odds of liking Bear Hands, but fans of late 90’s and early 21st Century indie-rockers like Hey Mercedes/Braid, as well as old Vagrant Records followers should hit it off great with this band.
Two phrases into Long Lean Queen I stopped what I was doing to listen to the rest of this EP.
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