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on the 7th june 2023, we refused a major label deal. some of you may know this, some of you may not. what matters is that this next era would not be possible without that event.

bears in trees only works when we have something to prove. it is a project built on the premise that there is something revolutionary in caring so much it makes you feel sick. that the scar is good, but the story it tells is so much better.

left, right, goodnight! is a song about rebuilding yourself after finding out someone you held dear was happy to watch you suffer. it is a song about defiance and doubt and all of the other horrible things that come between you, and accepting what happened to you. despite everything, it is a song about hope. 

because we know that success is unlikely, but it could be monumental. and when you're trying for long enough, hope and hopelessness start to feel the same.

left, right, goodnight! is out everywhere at midnight.

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ur new pfp looks like you four are telling your poor exhausted mother that you threw up in the night

ate too much gravel again. please advise

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Comic adaptation I made for class!

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welcome to the new era:

success is unlikely.

our new single is called Left, Right, Goodnight! and it is out everywhere this thursday.

presave it here.

i need you to know that is era is everything to us. nothing has felt as urgent or as cathartic or as needed as this. from now on, there will be nothing except this and us and you and me and everyone else willing to dream a dream as large as this.

thank you. see you soon.

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one year ago today, we released our second debut studio album.

how to build an ocean: instructions is an album concerned with detachment and subsequent reattachment to the people you hold close. it is an album about finding home in unfamiliar places. it is an album about falling in love with the city you grew up in.

most importantly, it is an album for you and for you alone.

to celebrate the anniversary, iain has created an epilogue documentary chronicling the aftermath of this album. a part two to the album documentary, chronicling a process that was flawed in all the right places.

you can watch that by clicking on the link here.

the future is bright.

thank you. bears in trees forever.

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Sinclair and Steve ena trend animation thingy!!!

( @bearsintreesofficial )

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it's been a whole year since how to build an ocean: instructions by the one and only dirtbag boyband @bearsintreesofficial was released!!! how and what!!!!

as we approach the Next Era i wanted to do a drawing to commemorate everything that's happened in this one. this is maybe my biggest drawing ever and i've put a lot of thought into it and it has soooo many references to the past era in it!! so i'll explain all those under the cut :))

i love this album so so so much and i hope this drawing conveys even a little bit of that!!!

i took everything i knew about the themes of the album and tried to distill it into one piece. the band's mentioned that the album is themed around coming home, reconnecting with your hometown, feeling lost and not really knowing your place in the world. so they're stranded in the middle of the ocean on a boat and trying to navigate their way back home!! haha. it's based more directly on a line from idwba - "when i step onto that ferry, and the man demands his pay". initially i had the boatman charon in the drawing too, but i ended up taking him out as it was kind of confusing!

i wanted it to have a kind of whimsical, fantastical vibe so there's a tree growing out of the boat. why? just for funsies!! on a qna i asked what the band thought the biggest visual symbols from this era were, and they answered maps, the ocean and scrapbooky vibes, so i've given the ocean is a big feature in the drawing. that's what the album's named after!! . callum and george are reading through some maps (callum's are screenshots of croydon on google maps or OS maps of the croydon area, and george is holding the map from the album cover). for the scrapbook vibes i've made a version that looks a bit like a scrapbook page, and a regular version as well.

over on iain and nick's side there's the cake callum baked for the baby shower announcement stream. there's a vase full of daffodils like from that one photoshoot. there's the banner they used to announce ttllm on tiktok, dj l8 nite kitten's head from the iwfc mv, and iain's infamous jleeves. there's two books in front of nick: flights by olga tokarczuk, which the album is named after, and the myth of Sisyphus by albert camus, which is referenced in injured crow. iain is drinking coffee with a raven flying above them whilst nick drinks hot chocolate, and there's also a crow with a bandaged wing - an injured crow, if you will :)

beside callum and george there's the giant mechanical skull callum gave to george on stage, the wizard hat nick had on tour and the bubble gun from the seaside tour. there's also George Jr, the raccoon hand from the spill the beans challenges on the subathon, and the chillies which were also from the subathon. there's also a can of chickpeas. this one's a funny one because iain actually told me to put it there themself! not even a joke!! i asked for an object to put in the drawing and they said a vase (which holds the daffodils) and a chickpea. i drew a can of chickpeas instead because a singular chickpea kind of just got lost in the drawing.

on the back wall of the boat there's a number of engravings. behind nick there's a bike for cycling, jaded - a song that was meant to go onto htbaoi but never made it - and a line from your favourite coat which was used as a clue for the arg leading up to the album announcement (thanks to @asherapparently for sending me that!!). the engravings on the far right side are the lil ghost from the ttllm music video, and the boatman taken directly from the album cover. i mentioned before that i had to omit him from the drawing so i thought i'd pay homage to him here.

finally, there're paper aeroplanes from your favourite coat, confetti for all you get is confetti, and the sign says '463 miles', like the bus route mentioned in henry says. on the side of the boat are a number of photos taken from instagram & twitter posts from this era, and the symbols from the album cover and the back of the vinyl are engraved onto the side of the boat - each one representing a different song. the streamers tied to the tree are in all the colours of the album.

bears in trees if you see this - your album is beautiful and wonderful and i love it dearly!!!

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hashtag nick host a gameshow 2k25

@bearsintreesofficial

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WOW I CANT BELIEVE CAPCOM JUST LEAKED TGAA 3!!!!!

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the left right goodnight intro in the style of the “success is unlikely” banner!!

@bearsintreesofficial

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Delilah Morreo and her sick as hell unnamed werewolf wife because they’re the coolest ever fr

RIP to the quality tho 💀

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i've fallen victim to gregg before, he stole from my collection of shiny rocks :// he makes a banging vegan sausage roll though

ok, be honest. who was it

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can't stop thinking about this movie tbh..

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ok, be honest. who was it

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pssst, you. yeah, you. wanna meet up and throw stones at the bike shed later? and then maybe afterwards we could watch the sunset and attach painful memories to all our favourite songs?

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(twitter really liked this so i figured all of you should see it too :))

felt a bit silly and drew @bearsintreesofficial (very silly) while listening to the jeopardy theme song on loop last night

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doing this again by @bearsintreesofficial or something idk i didn’t listen to the song