Lexington, KY’s Bear Medicine doesn’t occupy a space--it invents one. Any description of their music using rock crit shorthand–“chamber-prog-folk,” for instance–seems inadequate, even misleading. To put it plainly, Bear Medicine leaves me speechless. Joshua Wright’s songs simultaneously nod to and annihilate time-tested songform traditions, while the band’s spooky energy and skillful arrangements combine to reveal a multiplicity of ideas within each strange, evocative song. Fans of artists as varied as Comus, Led Zeppelin circa III, Kayo Dot, and Townes Van Zandt . . .
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