MP3: The Bear Quartet - I don't wanna
Parasol's Jim Kelly once again graces us with a song for our weekly Bear Quartet post:
Released in 2000, The Bear Quartet's "My war" was all about the austere, the sepia-toned, an album that really flirted with bleakness, especially the very very mellow quatrain of passionate acoustic ballads at the album's core. With "My war" the band further unveiled its inner-Neil Young, continued to explore its inner-Morrissey, while purposefully outing its inner-Radiohead. The album finds the band at their most willfully perverse ("What I hate"), at their most celestial ("I'm walking out"), and their most brilliantly realized ("I don't wanna"). Although hidden at the tail end of the album, it was the second single, and one of The Bear Quartet's most gorgeous songs to date. A living breathing beautiful piano driven charmer, among their very lushest, with lyrics about getting away from it all, or wishing you could...
The Bear Quartet - I don't wanna