Polar Bear Club – Sometimes Things Just Disappear

Polar Bear Club
Sometimes Things Just Disappear

I would feel that I cheated Polar Bear Club out of timely press if they weren’t already on top of the world. Opening for Third Eye Blind?! Hell yeah.

Anyways, from the droning notes of “Eat Dinner, Bury the Dog, and Run” you can correctly assume that Sometimes Things Just Disappear is the Survival is for Cowards to their Choose Bronze (pssssst….The Casket Lottery). Singer Jimmy Stadt admits “my view has been slightly pessimistic as of late” and I hope he stays miserable for a few more albums. Sound-wise, you could call Polar Bear Club a million different things. This is a band making music for themselves rather than another attack of the Set Your Goals clones. I say it sounds close to late Small Brown Bike without being a blatant swan song. Even though drummer Emmett Menke is a certified geezer, the band retains their trademark youthful spirit.

“Bug Parade” has the most infectious chorus they’ve written to date, and “Convinced I’m Wrong” makes for one emotional knockout of an ending. It’s only March, but I can tell this will end up on my year end list. “No glitz, no glam / No shit, no sham.”