Minus the Bear "Menos el Oso (20th Anniversary)" Metal A Different Shade of Blue

A Different Shade of Blue grabs the listener by the throat from the jump and slowly tightening that grip for the duration

Programmed beats with improvisational melodies

Produced by Klas Åhlund and mixed by Andy Wallace

an emotional scrapbook filled with things that happened and things that didn't

Originally released in 2003

Minus the Bear "Menos el Oso (20th Anniversary)" Metal A Different Shade of BlueBack in 2005, Seattle quintet Minus the Bear were riding the wave of a swift upward trajectory with their blend of '90s mathrock fretboard savvy, early '00s electro indie textural depth, and the wistful melodicism of the more mature strain of Midwest emo. So it was an interesting time for the band to undergo a stylistic sea change. Looking beyond their fellow guitar slingers, Minus the Bear instead found inspiration in the more adventurous pop