your roots. That's I obviously going to take some time, but I want to get down to your nuts and bolts. A lo g and tortuous way of saying that I'm following you And very much look forward to what you have in store for us in the future. 

So do be well my friends. Compliments on your many achievements  to date, and best wishes for your future endeavors. I'm certain success will continue to follow you, as it surely has to date. I love the idea I'd your taking songs from your back ...

catalog, stripping them down and making new music from them. That's ingenious, though it may be making for some ruffled feathers from some of your longest standing and most dedicated fans, but it's a great idea and I do look forward to what will ....

 ... be coming from those efforts. Also getting back to your roots by playing small local venues will surely please your dedicated fan base and should also  garner an  entirely new  group to your banner. The key point is that you're giving back, ...

... which shows the gratitude you have for your fans who have followed you so loyally for all these many years. You don't often see that from many of these self absorbed bobbleheads, who only seem to care about anything that directly benefits them.

That's sad for the state of the music business, which seems to be largely dedicated to themselves and often ignore the very people who helped get them there. But perhaps others will follow your lead and get their heads out of their -- um, I mean ....

... our of the sand and do right by their fans. I don't hold much hope for that; but who knows? Stranger things have happened. My apologies for raving on to you when I should have my headphones on. Thanks so very much for your time. 

Be well, my friends. And keep your awesome music coming. Take good care. Mike, from Bensalem, PA USA.  @michael-stella-314129023

Nice storytelling and arrangement - awesome.

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Taken from the debut album - Islands - out now.

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Andrew Davie, Joey Haynes and Kevin Jones – Bear’s Den to an ever-growing army of fans – formed a band in 2012. Two short years has seen euphoric word of mouth take them from early days of sofa surfing gigs via touring across Europe and North America to selling out their own 1500 capacity London headline show in May this year. All the while, their music has evolved into something spellbinding and beautiful; a gorgeous, enveloping sound driven by the steady hum of acoustic instruments and Andrew’s haunted voice delivering  “lyrically sincere and emotionally raw songs” (New York Times) that are “as timeless as heartache” (MTV). Arriving this autumn, their debut album Islands is astonishing – a record that perfectly marks the point where a band goes from best kept secret to new favourite band.

Released on Communion, Islands follows the band’s EPs Without/Within and Agape and their hugely acclaimed recent single Elysium (a track that came coupled with Marcus Haney’s remarkable short film). The album was produced by Ian Grimble (Manic Street Preachers/The 1975) at 2KHz Studio in North London. It features:

1. 	Agape
2. 	The Love You Stole
3. 	Above The Clouds of Pompeii
4. 	Isaac 
5. 	Think Of England 
6. 	Magdalene 
7. 	When You Break 
8. 	Stubborn Beast 
9. 	Elysium
10. 	Bad Blood

To mark the release of Islands, Bear’s Den play a series of intimate shows in key cities across Europe and North America. For tickets and information see http://po.st/BearsDenLive

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Above The Clouds Of Pompeii

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Beneath the Quiet Moon

Mess Is Mine

Sigh No More

Awake My Soul

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Stellar Evolution - The life story of stars
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Content: Gayathri Raman
Voice: Gayathri Raman
Introduction: Priyanka Singh
Editing: Mayuri Rao

SHOW NOTES:
Stars are like fiery hot balls of gas, held together as one massive globule with the help of gravity. Like humans, they are born, have a finite life time during which they age, and finally die. The initial mass with which a particular star is born, decides how it evolves.  Take for example a star like the sun, whose mass is roughly 2 times 10 to the power 30 kg, that is, 2 followed by 30 zeros. It fuses hydrogen to helium for a few billion years.  During this period,  gravity tries pulling all the matter inwards while radiation, from burning hydrogen, exerts pressure outwards, that is in a direction opposite to that of gravity. The burning of Hydrogen keeps the tug-of-war between gravity and radiation going. As the amount of hydrogen starts decreasing, the star grows into a massive red giant. As the name suggests the star has a reddish colour and grows in size because of the thin layer of Hygrogen that surrounds a small helium core. In fact, when our sun becomes a red giant, it will grow so big in size that it will engulf all the inner planets of the Solar system, including the earth. After all the hydrogen fuel gets exhausted, gravity starts over-powering the outward radiation pressure, making the ball of gas collapse on itself. This is when things start getting exciting and stellar fates diverge.  For sun-sized stars, the core starts collapsing while the outer shell starts expanding and is eventually blown away leaving behind a white dwarf star, that is hot, less luminous and nearly the size of the earth. For stars, born with roughly twice the mass of our Sun, the cores collapse further. They undergo a massive expsion called a supernova and end up as neutron stars, that are roughly the size of a small city with a 10 km radius. A different kind of pressure, called the Fermi degeneracy pressure, exerted by fermions that are particles like electrons and neutrons, prevent White Dwarfs and Neutron stars from collapsing further. But what if there is a star that is really really massive? Such stars, with masses many times the mass of our sun, explode brilliantly and finally form a black hole. No kind of pressure can counter gravity in black holes. Even light, or more generally, electromagnetic radiation, cannot escape from these notorious objects. 
When you look up at the night sky and see the countless number of stars, remember each star has its own story!

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Stellar Evolution - The life story of stars

Glaciers, taken from the new mini-album Bloom. 
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Bloom

Glaciers

Cooper Sams - Adrift

Delta

Woman

Pure / Sky High (Technoboy Remix)

Sky High (Technoboy Remix)

DJ Zany - Sky High (Technoboy Remix)

Formed in London 2012, Bear’s Den have amassed a dedicated and international fan base with their anthemic indie-folk-rock. With 3 studio albums under their belt, as well as recent collaborative project “Fragments"with composer Paul Frith, they have been a regular fixture in the charts of UK and Europe since their inception. Their Debut album “Islands” also garnered a nomination for an Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.  

Having toured around the world playing theatres, arenas and festivals (including Reading and Leeds, Glastonbury Festival, Pukkelpop, Lowlands and Bonnaroo), in 2019, following the release of their third album “So That You Might Hear Me" they returned to their origins for a tour of tiny "Highlands and Islands" venues across Scotland and a supporting documentary.  No stranger to music documentary making, the band also featured heavily in the award winning documentary Austin To Boston alongside Ben Howard, Nathaniel Rateliff and The Staves. 

The band’s most recent release, 2020’s “Fragments” is a collaborative work with acclaimed composer/arranger Paul Frith (Bear’s Den, The xx, Radiohead), taking highlights of the band’s back catalogue and rebuilding them from the ground up, alongside an orchestral ensemble, creating a completely new body of work from pieces of the originals.

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