Inner Cosmosis

After escalatingly popular releases on Zum and Zulu, Vancouver's Beans are back with this stylish, spacious, sprawling and shifting (mostly) instrumental artpostrock that floats over 4 pieces in an easy hours listen…and yes, I will somewhat unfairly point out a certain similarity in style with Godspeed You Black Emperor, distinguished by a more electronic and textural approach than GYBE's now trademark symphonic loud/quiet tribal swales. This 5 piece experimental music group augments standard rock instrumentation with a variety of new sounds, including homemade string and percussion instruments, electronics, turntables, tape machines, and a six octave marimba. Their multimedia collaborations with artists of diverse genres see Beans creating in a wide range of interdisciplinary idioms.

"Beans have an emotional intelligence and humility in their songs that defies simple rote response, or canned reaction. My favorite moments are those that evoke a rich array of sensations, a complex expression of feelings - of being alive - right now - while you're listening to it. Sometimes you can even hear the music inhale and exhale as if struggling to communicate while it unfolds with you. Of course, they're brilliant." - Patti Schmidt, Host of Brave New Waves, CBC Radio