Minus The Bear Announce New Album VOIDS

Minus the Bear Announce New Album VOIDS Release New Track “Invisible” + Tour Dates

Stream “Invisible” from VOIDS at Noisey  

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One of our favorite bands, Minus the Bear just gave us exciting info about new album VOIDS out on Suicide Squeeze March 3rd! This is the band’s sixth full-length album and their first full length LP in half a decade. This also marks the return of Minus the Bear to their original label home, Suicide Squeeze.  Minus the Bear have also announced a 29 date spring tour with support from Beach Slang and Bayonne.

Tickets are on sale this Friday, January 13th at 10 am local time, check out via vip.minusthebear.com.

FRI APR 14 – Portland OR, Wonder Ballroom

SAT APR 15 – Seattle WA, Showbox

For the past 15 years Minus the Bear have made music on their own terms while carving out their own unique musical world, selling over 500k records in the process and playing to countless sold out crowds along the way. This isn’t to say they’re impervious to outside influence. They’ve borrowed components from a wide swath of genres—the brainy clangor of New York’s proto-punk scene, the cerebral buzz of IDM, the poptimist evaluation of hip-hop and R&B, and the grandiose visions of prog rock—but always managed to defy classification. Throughout the first decade of their existence, every new album offered a new musical approach, as seen in the idiosyncratic fretboard gymnastics of Highly Refined Pirates, the glitchy loops of Menos el Oso, or the modernized Fripp- inspired wizardry of Planet of Ice. By the time the band entered our current decade, their knack for reinvention yielded to an emphasis on refinement. Albums like OMNI and Infinity Overhead searched for a middle ground where their myriad of stylistic approaches could all work within the context of a single record. On their sixth album VOIDS, produced by Sam Bell (The Cribs, Weezer, Bloc Party, Two Door Cinema Club), Minus the Bear started with a blank slate, and inadvertently found themselves applying the same starting-from-scratch strategies that fueled their initial creative process. “There was a lot of change and uncertainty,” says guitarist David Knudson. “I think the general vibe of emptiness, replacement, lacking, and longing to fill in the gaps was very present in everyones’ minds.”