Minus the Bear

What happens when lust and drug-addled stream of consciousness take a back seat?

For Minus the Bear, unease, love and unanswerable questions take the wheel.
“Infinity Overhead,” a deviation from the indie/math rock band’s norm, favors the softer curves, weaving and collapsing the lives of two lovers in opening crash track “Steel and Blood.”

No longer is lead vocalist Jake Snider singing of inebriated highs and never-ending nights. He’s detailing a bitter breakup in “Toska” and sinking in its isolation in “Listing.”

And, perhaps for the first time, he questions who’s really in control of the chaos with “Heaven Is a Ghost Town” and “Zeros.”

“Infinity Overhead” is the textbook summation of all the infinite fear and hopeless weight still towering when we push aside the smoke and mirrors. And yet it climbs with textured
guitar and carefully measured beats to brand it, unquestionably, MTB.

By Rachael Stuart