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Looking beyond their fellow guitar slingers, Minus the Bear instead found inspiration in the more adventurous pop producers of the era and went full steam ahead with a revamped sound of glitchy guitar loops, modern R\u0026amp;B rhythms, and swirling electronic tapestries on their 2005 sophomore album Menos el Oso. The stylistic shift was a gamble in the waning years of indie rock orthodoxy, but the risk paid off and Minus the Bear's popularity exploded. Twenty years later, Menos el Oso still sounds fresh and vibrant while simultaneously capturing the essence of a specific era where the rules and formulas of guitar-forward music were breaking down. To celebrate the album's anniversary, Suicide Squeeze Records and Minus the Bear are offering up Menos el Oso (Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition), featuring an expanded tracklist including five previously unreleased demos. The eleven tracks comprising the original Menos el Oso remain untouched for this deluxe edition. From the moment the needle hits on \"The Game Needed Me,\" the listener is reminded that there's no need to mess with keyboardist Matt Bayles' air-tight engineering and production on the album. The template is established right away: David Knudson's staccato guitar samples and pedal modulations, Erin Tate's souped-up club beats, Cory Murchy's syncopated backbeat basslines, Bayles's heady synth hooks, and guitarist\/vocalist Jake Snider's soulful guitar lines and trademark croon. There's an element of revelry and melancholy across the entire album as Snider casually describes vignettes from the band's first overseas tour-a six-date tour of Spain. These lyrical scenes drape the album in the excitement, yearning, aimlessness, and exoticness Hemingway captured in his rendering of The Lost Generation in The Sun Also Rises, achieving a similar dichotomous fusion of celebration and reflection. The centerpiece of the album-\"Pachuca Sunrise\"-encapsulates this duality with such enduring and profound power that one cannot talk about indie rock in the first decade of the new millennium without including it in the pantheon. Songs like \"Drilling\" and \"The Fix\" further reinforce the lyrical and musical themes of the album as they describe an American contemplating the distance between their home country and the foreign shores of the Mediterranean Sea against a backdrop of chirping guitars and drum patterns that fuse the poptimist pulse of the era with the sweaty subterranean rock embedded in the band's pedigree.Menos el Oso (Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition) expands the original LP into a double album featuring five demos mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering on side C and an etching by Cory Murchy on side D. 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