Limit of Love Boy & Bear
Album info
Album-Release:
2015
HRA-Release:
28.03.2017
Album including Album cover
- 1 Limit of Love 03:31
- 2 Walk the Wire 02:59
- 3 Where'd You Go 03:09
- 4 Hollow Ground 03:40
- 5 Breakdown Slow 03:56
- 6 Showdown 04:22
- 7 A Thousand Faces 02:52
- 8 Man Alone 03:17
- 9 Ghost 11 03:27
- 10 Just Dumb 05:13
- 11 Fox Hole 03:25
Info for Limit of Love
ARIA-award winning Sydney five-piece Boy & Bear return with „Limit of Love,“ their third studio, and follow up to 2013's 'Harlequin Dream' which debuted at #1 on the ARIA chart.
Following a massive touring schedule in 2014 – 170 shows across three continents – Boy & Bear decided to take the momentum they gathered on the road directly into the studio teaming up with renowned producer Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs) at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studio. Their intention, to cut a record the old fashion way – live in the studio, straight to tape, with virtually no overdubs.
The challenge paid off as seen with lead single "Walk the Wire." Fueled by a gritty guitar and synth groove, and buoyed by the honest, organic production style employed by Johns, the song is a bold new statement of intent.
Another first for Boy & Bear with 'Limit Of Love' was to write as a collective. With the demands of the previous year's touring Hosking – usually the band's main songwriter – hadn't had time to craft fully fledged songs. Most of the writing for 'Limit Of Love' took place through the first half of 2015, including some particularly focused sessions on the N.S.W. South Coast. It was here, Killian Gavin, Tim Hart, Jon Hart and Dave Symes with Hosking, for the first time collaborated on a number of songs including "Walk the Wire."
Dave Hosking, vocals, guitar
Killian Gavin, guitar, vocals
Jon Hart, keyboard, vocals
Tim Hart, drums, vocals
Dave Symes, bass, vocals
Boy & Bear
Formed in 2009 as a solo vehicle for Sydney-based singer/songwriter Dave Hosking, Boy & Bear specializes in evocative and heartfelt indie folk-rock in the vein of contemporaries like Fleet Foxes, Bombay Bicycle Club, and Mumford & Sons. Rounded out by guitarist Killian Gavin, bass player Dave Symes, and brothers Tim (drums) and Jon Hart (mandolin, keyboards), the Aussie quintet inked a record deal with Island Records on the strength of its independently released first single, "Mexican Mavis." The group's debut EP, With Emperor Antarctica, dropped in early 2010, followed in 2011 by Boy & Bear's debut long-player, Moonfire, which went platinum in their native Australia. The band's sophomore outing, 2013's Harlequin Dream, would go gold. Their next album was captured, as much as possible, live in the studio direct to tape with producer Ethan Johns (Paul McCartney, the Vaccines), and represented a shift into synth-aided guitar pop. Limit of Love arrived in October 2015.
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