Tract Rec.
Grumpy Bear & Boo Hiss : The Wandering bark EP (US,2006)****/**'
Grumpy Bear is Tyler Blake and Latteny B., voice, guitar, piano. His three contemplative expressive songs I like very much. The minor-melancholic “Brittle Bride” sung with beautifully coloured voice and simple accompaniment catches my feelings easily. “In the Morning” is a song of sweet promises during the morning, overshadowed by fears that things go wrong. This has the same simple attractiveness. This continues in “Church Mouse” which sounds like a resume of an event from during the day in a diary song with a manipulated tape recording of conversations and voices which haunt in the background, like electronic voices in toys. This song gets an expressive dramatic -musically well done- ending of conflicting screams mixed with semi-acoustic stomps event. Brilliant.
Boo Hiss is Doby Watson. His songs are indoor song complaints with more experimental and distorted guitars with percussion, and sound more impulsive moments pulled away with musical distortions in rather emotionally instinctive rhythms.
