hello! if you're reading this then, hear me out for just a moment.
hello a second time. we are a band from south london called bears in trees. we sound a bit like the kids at school who were late to class because they'd found a cool rock in the field next to the playground they simply couldn't stay away from.
we write songs about platonic love, eating concrete, and understanding the anxieties your mother felt. our general motto is to write introspective music to party and/or cry to. it's been a pretty successful vibe so far. we call ourselves a dirtbag boyband but only 3 of us identify as boys; so the boyband part is in essence, not gender.
i'm writing this post because we just announced our newest ep. it's called every moonbeam every feverdream, and it's about finding peace in the everyday rhythm of your life, the sun exploding, and feeling like you don't have a body. we just released the first single from it too - that’s called kind love, and you can listen to it here.
we grew up on tumblr, and it’s always been a second home to us. if you’re still reading this here in 2022 i’m guessing you feel the same so! there’s common ground. we’re signed to an independent label in the usa and up until last year we did everything ourselves so, as weird as advertising is we much prefer doing it in the spaces we understand and value. this is, to be blunt, an advertisement we hope will get you to listen to our band. it would mean a lot to our 15 year old fandom blogs if you did.
if you have listened, already like us, or just want to signal boost our lil’ band, reblogging this goes a long way. then, even if you don’t vibe with our music (which is absolutely fine) maybe someone on your dash will. that would be equally as lovely.
thank you for reading. i hope you have a lovely whatever you were doing before you started reading this.
You can watch it all here. A documentary about the show is soon to be released.
(Tip: each item is a different upload of the whole thing; the third has one of the videos out of order below the rest, and the fourth is missing the first twenty episodes.)
Mister X always gets things all wrong, as you can see - and under him, those are Card People, not Letter People. Mister X's pictured design is his original 60's design, also pictured here (and also, here, which also has all the main songs - including the untelevised Q, R and X songs). As for the Card People, I'll get to their Letter People connection in a couple of days...
Want more Norman Maclean, PhD’40? Read his reflections on Nobel laureate and UChicago physics professor Albert A. Michelson and gamesmanship, from our Summer 1975 issue.
Archival photo: University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf2-06092r, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library