Farewell covers a lot of ground across the span of it's 26 songs and two-hour run time. Yet every moment is a reminder of why Minus the Bear were such an experiential live band.
In Acoustics II, poetics and figurative language take the reigns. The album is stripped down to acoustics, allowing the raw sound of Minus the Bear to shine through.
"Not The Smile as in ha-ha-ha, more The Smile as in the guy who lies to you every day"... so speaks Thom Yorke on the inspiration behind the name of the new trio consisting of himself, his Radiohead bandmate Jonny Greenwood and drummer Tom Skinner of UK j
