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Bears In The Yukon CD
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Reviews
"You.May.Die.In.The.Desert are a notable Seattle Trio who play exciting instrumental tracks inspired by celebrated artists like Pinback, Juno, Explosions in the Sky, and old local favorites Sharks Keep Moving. Their songs boast beauty but with muscle–compositions leap forward and spin around, and there are moments where they get messy and distorted enough to make you feel a little dizzy."
-Megan Seling (The Stranger)
Harmonic Motion Volume 1 Reviews.
"Harmonic Motion Volume 1 is an album of many surprises, all of them good. Both bands have grown by leaps and bounds since 2006, so much so that their current work is at times unrecognizable when compared to their former work. The two bands remain distinctive, and yet still make sense together. Most importantly, this album is stuffed with highlights and sounds great straight through."8.5/10
-Richard Allen (The Silent Ballet)
"Hard-edged instrumental shoegaze-ish rock from a pair of very complementary bands. Strong composition and production."
-ADD Reviews
"Both bands = Explosions in the Sky + Mogwai + 65daysofstatic + etc.
The album art on this little split is absolutely TERRIBLE. The music inside is entirely the opposite, and probably one of the nicest surprises I've had all month.The split is just under an hour in length and will likely please fans of any of the bands I've mentioned above. Extra credit goes to YMDITD for including a Mystery Science Theater 3000 reference as one of their song titles. Fantastic."
–Conor Dow (SLUG Magazine)
"YMDITD is the Damnation side with a softer more atmospheric post-rock sound. Structurally, their half is more experimental with the songs being more thematic than having any real form or build-up; a melody or idea is explored, developed, and discarded for another one. This approach works really well and, combined with catchy, accessible melodies, maintains my attention."
-Bernard Koch (www.sonicfrontiers.net)
Bears In The Yukon Reviews.
"Y.M.D.I.T.D. bring to the table a rare knack for fusion, technical prowess, and mastery of composition. Elements of post-rock, jazz, and math rock seamlessly coalesce into a sound that would be challenging to imitate, let alone duplicate. Echo and delay laden loud/louder guitar phrases hypnotize and add a depth that is seemingly impossible for a mere trio to create. Impressive. Amazing, even.
I don't know what else to say. I'm completely dumbstruck by this album in the best way possible. This is easily one of the better instrumental offerings I've heard in some time. You can pick this incredible piece of sonic marvel up at the Mylene Sheath online catalog, and at a mere ten bucks, it just may be the best fucking deal in town."
-Sound as Language
"You.May.Die.In.The.Desert is a three-piece band that makes instrumental post rock along the lines of Explosions in the Sky. They manage to keep this disc from feeling repetitive or particularly formulaic, their tracks traversing joyfully unstable landscapes of time changes and careful shredding. Interlude is used to slow down the album, giving the listener a breather, and a Jatun closes out the album in a dream-like ambient wash."
-Redefine Magazine
"Listening to the EP, it seems hard to believe that You.May.Die.In.The.Desert are only a three-piece, such is the chaotic nature of their music. Focusing on the use of elaborate fretwork and delay effects rather than adopting a typical 'quiet-loud' approach.You.May.Die.In.The.Desert successfully blur the boundaries between post-rock and jazz, although stylistically their sound is far removed from either of their better-known counterparts.with Bears In The Yukon, You.May.Die.In.The.Desert have recorded a solid, consistently good release."7.5/10
-Richard White (The Silent Ballet)
"The music is temporally challenging, as the delay effects overlap every note with the last, creating a frenzied, surreal stupor which hangs over the music. YMDITD's auditory approach is a nice addition to the US instrumental scene, which is largely pigeonholed into "bands that are loud" and "bands that are not loud." Bears in the Yukon sacrifices a few opportune moments to explode into a caccoon of noise and distortion for the opportunity to raise the level of sophistication by use of clever transitioning techniques. This is a band to watch out for in the future, and unsigned, how does that happen?"
-Jordan Volz (The Silent Ballet)
"Brightest new comer of math rock from Seattle, it might not be rumor that they are described as post Tortoise. The shift and slack of their intense sneaking closer to get us from the back.The waves of their sound with a peculiar heat are coming one after another in density, and the sound will strike us quite hard. The tightness of their ensemble as a 3-piece band will prove us their perfectionism and their sublime grimness."
-Yasuyo Kawanobe (Tower Records Japan)
