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First Listen: Bear In Heaven, 'Time Is Over One Day Old'

Bear In Heaven's new album, Time Is Over One Day Old, comes out Aug. 5. Dusdin Condren/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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First Listen

First Listen: Bear In Heaven, 'Time Is Over One Day Old'

The Brooklyn band writes inventive epics that behave like highly concentrated energy shots. You have to pay attention, because key elements arrive and depart in a blink.

Time Is Over One Day Old

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Bear In Heaven's 'Sinful' Ode To Shy Girls

Bear in Heaven's album, I Love You, It's Cool, is out April 3 on Dead Oceans/Hometapes. Shawn Brackbill/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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All Songs Considered

Bear In Heaven's 'Sinful' Ode To Shy Girls

A vein of romantic melodrama runs through the Brooklyn band's hazy pop songs.

Sinful Nature

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These songs will change your life back to the way it was before The Shins changed it the first time. Photo Illustration: Lars Gotrich; Photos: Brandon Feagan via Flickr hide caption

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The Black Crowes are lashing out at Maxim magazine for reviewing the band's new album -- apparently without actually hearing it first. Carrie Brownstein does the same to albums we really wish existed.