Bear Worship - Was (2017)

Bear Worship is a celebration. It's about positivity and realism, love and friends, passion and nostalgia, and the need for creativity. After a string of well regarded singles which have received airplay on RTE and the BBC, featured in myriad blogs, and ended up in a number of end-of-year lists, Bear Worship’s debut album WAS was released on the 15th June 2017, with a premiere on The Thin Air.

The backbone of WAS’s sound is drums and bass guitar, and layered above are
swathes of synthesizer, guitar, arpeggios, and harmonies, all topped off with Bear Worship’s distinctive vocals. Sonically it lies somewhere between Grizzly Bear and Animal Collective, with other touchstones being Deerhunter, St Vincent, Oh No Ono, Giorgio Moroder, Air, Tame Impala, and the Beach Boys. The songs were written and recorded between Bear Worship's home studio and Stephen Shannon's Experimental Audio (Adrian Crowley, Barry McCormack, the Late David Turpin, Strands).

Tracklist:

01. Bear Worship - Art in the Artifice
02. Bear Worship - Shimmerings
03. Bear Worship - Galapagos
04. Bear Worship - Our Friends
05. Bear Worship - Frequency
06. Bear Worship - Pagodas
07. Bear Worship - Illusions of Modernity
08. Bear Worship - Stoicism
09. Bear Worship - A Wondrous Waste of Time