Planet of Ice - Premium Ice Cube Trays for Cocktails & Beverages | Perfect for Home Bars, Parties & Outdoor Gatherings | BPA-Free & Durable

Product Description For the past six years, Seattle's Minus the Bear have orbited the music world like a distant meteor, fine-tuning their brand of idiosyncratic indie rock and discovering how technology can help enhance their unique pop vision - all of which is about to culminate with this, their latest full-length. Amazon.com Minus the Bear's Planet of Ice marks the Seattle band's third full-length release (not counting three EPs and a remix album), and achieves an effect as spacious and blinding white as the landscape the title evokes. Psychedelia and math rock are here in equal parts, making for a somewhat bi-polar listening experience--the excellent "Part 2" opens with a downright Pink Floydian acoustic guitar before winding up to a driving circuitous conclusion, while nine-minute closer "Lotus" reels all over the stylistic map, starting and stopping in a mini-suite of hammering guitars and vaporous keyboards. Most songs keep well away from a standard verse-chorus structure, with lyric and instrumental passages stitched together like some indie rock Frankenstein (tracks are occasionally book-ended by wittily realized sonic manipulations that might cause the listener to check the CD for skips), but Minus the Bear keeps the melodies potent and the emotion high enough to prevent Planet of Ice from drifting into impenetrable shoe-gazer territory. --Ben Heege Review Nurturing a bold stylistic shift towards progressive and psychedelic rock Planet of Ice.. is loaded with hooks. -- BillboardPlanet of Ice maintains an organic quality that allows the songs' innate catchiness to shine through. -- *NPR WORLD CAFE*exploring looser, more organic arrangements and indulging their psychedelic side ... brilliant countermelodies and sublime textures. 4/5 stars -- Alternative Presstales of misappropriated personal currency and corporate disconnect providing the titular chill while hushed romantics beckon the thaw" -- Filter See more