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The Golden Bears’ second full-length album, Write It Like You Find It, is a love poem to their daughter, to one another, and to the bands and music that rescued them from despair along their way. Songs full of the dewy-eyed wonder inspired by new life bump up against hungrier ones, songs bursting with longing for sleep, for sex, for rock and roll. It’s a joyride through the couple’s musical loves: Psychedelic rock, 60’s chamber pop, century-old piano ballads and more. All twelve weave together to tell the story of what you lose and find when your life is no longer simply yours.
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Wall to Wall, released in 2008 on Amore!Phonics Records, is the Golden Bears’ first full-length album. Recorded in and around their home studio in expectation of their daughter’s birth, the songs are full of the anticipation and hope that awaits all mysterious passages. Songs of sea voyage, fecund gardens, islands being born, and nesting trees move our heroes toward their destination. Weaving their loves of psychedelia and grunty garage, folky ballads and trash, The Golden Bears have created a deeply personal album that will touch anyone who has ever set off on a journey unsure of what they might uncover.
It’s a gorgeous record, perfectly suited to the vinyl format, with Bright’s absolutely charming cover art and twelve short songs that add up to something greater than the sum of their parts. Songs flow in and out of each other, motifs are introduced, indulged and expanded upon; the result is divided up amongst two sides that are, in some ways, mirror reflections of each other. The album embraces the strangeness of dreams, the comfort of domesticity, the reassurance of love, the fear of the unknown, and the wide-eyed wonder of childhood imagination. It's breathtakingly good.- Ned Lannamann, Portland Mercury
