Minus the Bear

Editor's Review:

Ethnomusicologists have long been searching for the link between good pop songwriting and highly technical math-rock, and with this, Minus The Bear's first full-length album, that gap has been bridged. Containing the perfect balance of complexity, nuance, energy and heart, Highly Refined Pirates evades the pitfalls that keep intelligent, challenging rock on the fringe of enjoyment. The intricate songs refuse to sacrifice listenability for laborious arrangements, leaving their inherent beauty intact. Tricky musical passages are executed without bringing attention to themselves, leaving the song breathing around layered guitar and synth lines, strong ornate vocals and essentially propelling rhythms. A thinking man's rock album, the songs display contrast, musical restraint and enticing production. I give this disc, and the band responsible for the excellence contained within, a resounding, rum-drenched "Yar!"
- Maurice S. Teilmann
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Record Label Suicide Squeeze Records Released January 2003

Tracks Thanks For the Killer Game of Crisco Twister Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!! Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse Hey, Wanna Throw Up? Get Me Naked 2: Electric Boogaloo We Are Not A Football Team You Kill Bugs Good, Man Spritz!!! Spritz!!! Women We Haven't Met Yet Damn Bugs Whacked Him, Johnny I Lost All My Money at the Cock Fights Andy Wolff Let's Play Guitar In A Five Guitar Band Booyah Achieved Get Me Naked 2: Electric Boogaloo (radio edit) Spritz!!! Spritz!!! (radio edit)

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