Time Is Over One Day Old

In their current form, Bear in Heaven may indeed be far more accessible than they were in the mid to late aughts when a song sporting a verse/chorus framework was the exception rather than the rule (even now it's more of a suggestion). Nevertheless, a brazen and workmanlike confidence marks the album as a more recognizable creative evolution than its predecessor's endearing, but ultimately canned, artistic departure.

Time Is Over One Day Old use a less is more approach, the understated subtlety of which results in their best album to date.

Not so much breaking up with old ways of thinking as redefining and refining them, Bear In Heaven have gone back to what they do best.

This is a record that nurtures and works around feeling, clawing its hooks deep wherever you lay most vulnerable. Sensual is most definitely the word.

While Time isn’t a massive overhaul, Bear in Heaven tweaked where they needed to, and picked up a pretty neat trick along the way. The more you listen to these songs, the more they linger.

On Time Is Over One Day Old, there’s always something missing, a mystery hanging in the air, yet it’s the band’s most satisfying album yet.

Time Is Over One Day Old is a subtle and moody work that somehow manages to keep moving forward with a mechanical precision, giving one the otherworldly, but not at all unpleasant, feeling of standing still on a moving walkway.

Featuring 10 tracks of gooey, dislocated goodness, its gravity-free atmospherics are just right for soundtracking summer moon treks, intergalactic windsurfing, and asteroid volleyball. Down to earth it is not: These deep but compact space jams can't get much higher.

With his altered, multi-tracked vocals and ear for dynamic builds, Philpots leads Bear in Heaven on a similar sonic path [as My Morning Jacket's Z], surrounding biting verse-chorus-verse lyricism with ambient laser beams and rubbery textures.

This one's for the headphones.

On Time Is Over One Day Old, any emotional extreme or attempted musical shift just ends up sounding like stasis.

This is songwriting with a stunning paint job, but with its training wheels still on. [Nov 2014, p.71]

In the Grace of Your Love was the sound of a forgotten band pleading for your interest and affection as if life itself depended on it. Time Is Over One Day Old may possess the same lineage as that record, but despite all of its attempts at being similarly organic, it couldn’t be colder or more distant.

A good sound can only support wobbly songs so far, and the middle third of the album sinks into a deadly lull that suggests the band only sporadically knows how to pull off slower tempos.