Mostly Bears: The Ed Mitchell Clinic – Music Review

If you’re a fan of the Local Natives, The Black Keys, or Modest Mouse, then Mostly Bears’ new album; The Ed Mitchell Clinic will stick well with you.  Mostly Bears puts themselves out there with heavy drum lines, dissonant keys, thin sounding guitar lines, and abstract vocals.

“Airports” has a very Modest Mouse feel to it.  The busy drum line and the numerous backing vocals adds a special feel to the track.  As a single track, “Airports” is to be found impressive, and the track sits very well within the album.  “The Digital Divide” and “Leda Atomica”, the two tracks before “Airports” are very heavy driven, and similar, “Airports” shows a nice amount of diversity.  The track is different enough from the others to show diversity, but it doesn’t stray to far off from the band’s genre.

The abstract quality to “Eclipse The World (Oh, My Brain)” is special, but the track quickly gets old and repetitive, especially with it running over six minutes.  The radio edit, which is included in the album is much better.  The song being five minutes compared to six minutes.  The other radio edit included on the album is for the song “Melancholyism”.  Unlike “Eclipse The World (Oh, My Brain)” there is basically no difference to the tracks.

Mostly Bears released an EP in 2007 that went fairly well with the fans, The Ed Mitchell Clinic is their debut album. In this album, Mostly Bears comes across as a jam band with special qualities.  As the album progresses, their music gets weaker.  The band has potential and it definitely shows in this album, they just haven’t reached full potential yet.  I’d stay looking out for Mostly Bears.  By their sophomore album, Mostly Bears should have it together to put out one hundred percent of what they’re capable of doing.

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Author: Ilya Setrakian