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Official Music Mule Health Warning: Bear In Heaven have no regard for maintaining the current layout of your internal organs. But this band are more than simply low end frequencies that shake to the core. There’s a wonderful fluidity to these synth and beat driven psychedelic songs, an effortless power. While other bands with sounds this big may get lost in their own sonic cocktails, Bear In Heavens songs shine through. The set of our day without doubt.

For Fans Of: Pink Floyd (Barrett Era), Secret Machines, The Flaming Lips.

The Brooklyn band line up as a three today instead of their usual four. Front-man (well side-man if you’re going to get technical!) and synth player John Philpot’s Wayne Coyne on steroids voice manages the unlikely task of towering above the musical barrage that he and his band create. Guitarist Adam Willis provides cutting riffs on the likes of set opener ‘Ultimate Satisfaction’ and single colossal single ‘Whole Hearted Mess’.

We’re then treated to heavy synth music at it’s best: ‘Lovesick Teenagers’ and the superb ‘You Do You’. The appropriately named Joe Stickney provides a relentless percussive assault form his drum kit and is partly responsible for the new and we’re hoping improved arrangement of our vital organs. He’s one of those musicians who seems to glide about his instrument and it’s something special to behold.

Latest album (Beast Forth Rest Mouth) opener Beast in Peace conversely becomes set closer today and you can see why. It perfectly showcases all the band’s strengths and completely blows the Emos Annex audience’s mind which seems to have been fused into one during the process of the band’s set. The best live song and band we’ve seen since… We may have to get back to you on that actually.

Bear In Heaven head out on a North American tour with Cymbals Eat Guitars after SXSW and then head to Europe including two dates in Lon-don. Everyone who likes powerful music should see this band but our health warning stands.