― dmun drive-in (dmun), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)
OK so Polar Bear's new album is totally teabagging my balls. I love it.
― Scik Mouthy, Sunday, 27 July 2008 08:29 (eighteen years ago)
Teabagging be good.
-- Scik Mouthy, Friday, 25 July 2008 06:33 (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
― Just got offed, Sunday, 27 July 2008 11:06 (eighteen years ago)
The lack of attention these guys get on ILM saddens me.
― Scik Mouthy, Sunday, 17 August 2008 10:50 (eighteen years ago)
Blog it! :P
Also now you know how I feel about all MY pet bands.
― Just got offed, Sunday, 17 August 2008 10:56 (eighteen years ago)
Haha; I would blog it, and will at some point, but I'm writing up Polar Bear's new one for DiS at the moment. I'm gonna write up THE BALLET we went to last night for the blog, though.
― Scik Mouthy, Sunday, 17 August 2008 10:59 (eighteen years ago)
I only know one song ("It Snows Again") from some cover mount freebie CD, but I love it. Should I get the whole album? Is that song representative?
― Savannah Smiles, Sunday, 17 August 2008 16:35 (eighteen years ago)
I don't recognise that song title; there was a 90s American indie band also called Polar Bear - the one I'm ranting and raving about is a straight-up jazz band, though.
― Scik Mouthy, Sunday, 17 August 2008 16:49 (eighteen years ago)
http://sickmouthy.com/2013/02/10/polar-bear-polar-bear-2008/
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 10 February 2013 09:33 (thirteen years ago)
Somehow I've avoided any knowledge of Rochford or Polar Bear until today. It took James Acaster talking about Held on the Tips of Fingers for me to start digging, and that album is crazy good (and not at all what I expected). It's really along the lines of Birth (fantastic sax/bass/drums trio who no one knows), Happy Apple, or some Tied + Tickled Trio stuff, all high up in my pantheon.
Listened to Rochford's newest ECM release too, spare piano & drums elegies, very different but really good.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 September 2025 16:57 (eleven months ago)
Oh man
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 3 April 2026 19:52 (four months ago)
Just came here to see if anyone could recommend anything remotely like Same As You, Polar Bear’s last album from 2015, which I’ve never heard anything else quite like.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 3 April 2026 19:54 (four months ago)
Delighted to see Jordan get hooked. Rochford does some nice rock/folk/alt work on Patrick Wolf’s last album.
None of their other records that I checked out did it for me quite like Held on the Tips of Fingers, but I should go back and give another listen.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 3 April 2026 20:14 (four months ago)