June 13th, 2008
Podington Bear
Writing a couple of these everyday can be kind of difficult sometimes, especially when inspiration is as lacking as my underwear (um…). So I can’t even imagine putting myself in the position of composing three new songs per week for a period of 52 weeks. And yet, Podington Bear is about to pull it off; with only a few songs left to share over the Internet, the world’s most musical bear will establish a phenomenal artistic feat by keeping his songs far from the mundane, which makes one believe that must have actually eaten his muse to have upkept such creative levels of inspiration all this time.
A song like Ebullience denotes Podington Bear’s high quality watermark; you’d never realise he’s at the end of his creative undertaking with such a strikingly charming, perky, active song. It bleeps, rattles, and clinks as if the bear dove into his sonic toybox and put together a multicolour Lego house complete with wheels, spaceship wings, and oddly placed windows. The tune saunters on almost as if in a tropical panorama, sounds fluttering by like small birds, the keys brushing gently like a light breeze, and its naive vividness warming everything like a generous sunbeam. As playful as it is earnest, Ebullience is a clunky, quirky delight of vivid, frolicsome beauty, eons away from the stark coldness electronic which usually fastens itself to electronic music.