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1) Polar Bear is a British jazz band led by drummer Seb Rochford. Signed to the Babel Label, their first album Dim Lit was a small-scale success. Their second album, Held on the Tips of Fingers, merged elements of cool jazz, funk, dance music, free jazz, electronica, and Drum and Bass, and was a crossover hit, earning Polar Bear a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize in 2005. The success was all the more unusual for a largely instrumental album. The album was nominated for a BBC Jazz Award 2006. They are part of the F-IRE Collective.

Their latest album (titled eponymously, released July 2008) continues much in the vein of their sophomore release, focusing on the fusion of many different styles of jazz. While much more dense and lengthy than their earlier releases, early reviews are speaking highly of it.

2) Polar Bear were a Los Angeles-based band led by former Jane’s Addiction bassist, Eric Avery, who formed the band with Biff Sanders, formerly of Ethyl Meatplow, as a side project. They recorded most of their music in downtown Los Angeles, at Motiv studios. Many Jane’s Addiction fans consider Why Something Instead of Nothing? to be the best post-Jane’s Addiction work done by any of the four original members. It was re-released in 2004.

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Kala666 wrote:
last week

ahhhhhhhhhhhh

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lucy-black wrote:
November 2008

GROUP: http://www.last.fm/group/Acoustic+Ladyland+etc.

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DevaRed wrote:
November 2008

Seen them live at Bluecoats, Liverpool on top form!

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[deleted-user] wrote:
October 2008

Group here: http://www.last.fm/group/Acoustic+Ladyland+etc. ... please join, it needs charts and members ;)
oprimus wrote:
October 2008

Heres our review! http://thefourohfive.com/2008/08/07/polar-bear-st/

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Lekha_Zyo wrote:
September 2008

Beartown is awesome. And it's on nine. =))

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mimiainspiron wrote:
September 2008

Hi there :o) think you will like Out of the blue as well! Check out and enjoy =)

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josh_down wrote:
August 2008

i love it... best tune for me by a mile is brian

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scottfenner wrote:
August 2008

i've got it too, it *is* amazing!

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jrisgod wrote:
August 2008

My copy came through the post today - It's great, better than the last one for me. It doesn't appear to have leaked yet so that's probably why no-one seems to be listening to it.

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josh_down wrote:
July 2008

does anyone have the third album except me? not seen anyone else listening to it... it;s seriously worth waiting for cause it's amazing!

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futurezsofka wrote:
July 2008

i dare to say,massive!

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memeco wrote:
July 2008

Pretty cool

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bieno wrote:
June 2008

I cant find music of these musicians, somebody can help me to get some of this music?

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[deleted-user] wrote:
June 2008

perfect
Justin1983 wrote:
May 2008

I have been waiting for their third album for three years now, and the first and second were only a year apart. I looked up any news on their third album, if one was coming or what--and they recorded one all the way back in 2006, and it won't be released until next month... they should have just released it two years ago! I hates waiting for more Polar Bear!

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bonvivant wrote:
March 2008

ooohw.. just figured out polar bear are two complete different bands

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Nagsworth wrote:
December 2007

And Bear vs. Shark. So is this the same artist I heard on Radio 1 a few hours back? The spoken word chappy? Because that was utterly exceptional lyricism, hope all their stuff is like that. Sounds like you lot were having a great time at Maida Vale. :-D

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Jharod wrote:
December 2007

H-VATH, what about adding Bear Colony to that list? =) and also Panda Bear

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messo wrote:
December 2007

Just discovered Polar Bear and was instantly blown away! Freakin' awesome music :D

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new album

5 Dec 2008 | from blog.myspace.com/sebastianrochford

hello, so we just recorded half our new album and am really happy with how it sounding : )decided to record without the use of headphones as i wanted to see how this affected the way we play together.. …

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