polar bear

Location:
london, US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Experimental / Acoustic / Jazz
Site(s):
Label:
tin angel
Type:
Indie
HELLO OUR NEW ALBUM PEEPERS CAME OUT ON LEAF LABEL 1ST MARCH AND WE HAVE HAD THESE NICE THINGS SAID ABOUT IT
"The most convincing "post-jazz" album yet:
**** The Times .
**** Financial Times.



"One of the rowdier pleasures of the age"
The Independent On Sunday.
"Rochford's mix of circus-oompah patterns, punchy funk with neatly-spliced jazzy offbeats and encyclopaedic world-rhythm references mean you could listen to this compelling set just for him"
**** The Guardian.
"No chance of this Polar Bear becoming an endangered species"
**** The Sun
"Seb Rochford's [sic] great band fire onwards and upwards. Sizzling"
**** The Mirror.
"Peepers leaves no doubt as to how successful this union of education and expression is"
9/10 Drowned in Sound .
"Peepers is the finest Polar Bear album yet, which makes it a very fine recording indeed"
All About Jazz
"Talented musicians reworking the rulebook with hearts and minds at play"
BBC Music.
"A rambunctious and thoroughly absorbing post-bop jazz offering"
Record Collector.
"Whether you're a bona fide jazz aficionado, or a poor ignoramus who doesn't know their Chet from their Cheryl Baker, you'll still find something to marvel at with Peepers. Explore."
**** Hot Press.
"The group that flung wide the jazz club windows and let fresh air into a scene mired in cliche and rear-view mirror gazing. Rochford's drums are as characterful as ever, with that sexy groove supplied as standard"
The Wire
"First serious contender for album of 2010"
**** Jazzwise
"Their albums have got better and better"
**** Uncut.
"A raw, live-in-the-room sound, with elliptical nods to James 'Blood' Ulmer, Tortoise and the free-jazz cosmos along the way. It's jazz shorn of the cliché that demands to be taken on its pigeonhole rebuffing merits"
**** Mojo.
"Mournful and berserk fun"
**** Observer Music Monthly.
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