Artist: The Bear Quartet Title: Family Affair Catalog#: WeCD061 Price: $13.25	Tracks on this CD:
	Carsick
	Big Stretch
	Revisited
	Slope Goings
	Who's Knocking
	Left On the Bank Of the River
	Smallest
	Boss Dawn
	Cross Yawn
	Twinreceiver

The (r)evolution continues in the wake of ‘Penny Century’… As The Bear Quartet had written dozens of songs for the years before being signed, the release of their debut in 1993 only momentarily pacified the band. Not content to release just one album in 1993, the band served up two new albums (plus a handful of EPs, revisited on their recent ‘Early Years’ DCD collection, also available). The BQ mine and refine their influences (early Teenage Fanclub, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Swervedriver, Dinosaur Jr) and wrestle with their personal demons, both lyric and instrumental. ‘Cosy Den’ and ‘A Family Affair’ are both mesmerizing/melancholic triple-guitar ascents. If you’re into the guitar-strangling best of the bands referenced above (and that late-eighties/early-nineties guitar rock itch needs scratchin’, don’t it?) these early BQ albums are a treasure waiting to be discovered.

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