Bears In Trees - New Music

BEARS IN TREES / ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM / RELEASE SINGLE

South London based “dirtbag boyband” and social media sensations, Bears In Trees, have revealed the details surrounding their upcoming debut studio album, and everybody else smiled back, released 19th November 2021 through Counter Intuitive Records. Fresh from recent support slots with YouTube sensation Noah Finnce, not to mention selling out their own debut headline UK tour dates in July 2021 during a global pandemic (including a 500 cap London show), the band will be announcing further live plans over the coming months. Described by the band as a concept album, and everybody else smiled back is a living story—it’s about walking through college house parties as the world is ending around you and then, the day after, the everlasting love you feel as the lights are fading in your energy-saving bulbs.

 The album deals with themes of first-time independence, sexual and emotional trauma, and picking your friends up in the aftermath. The best, and worst, day of your life always has a day after. The album title is a paraphrased quote from the book ‘The Secret History’ by Donna Tartt, in which a classics student at a liberal arts college in Vermont goes to a college party for the first time, takes MDMA, and says of the experience: “I smiled at everyone and everyone smiled back.”

“’Great Heights’ was written on a mattress on a hardwood floor at 4am after my friend’s birthday,” says guitarist Nicholas Peters. “It’s about those nights that don’t seem to end, where whatever bed you find (pavement/kitchen/outside of the train station waiting for the first train back to London) brings you the most comfort you’ve ever felt. It’s also about the fear that those nights are going to ruin you—you can’t make a bed that doesn’t have covers, and I don’t feel good if I don’t make my bed in the morning…”