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The Laughing House

by Black Bear Catapult

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01. Leopold Checks In At The Laughing House
02. The Great Spoiler

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Black Bear Catapult - “The Laughing House” (BS043)


Wonderful track [Leopold Checks In At The Laughing House]! Very nice, another fine example of Bearsuit Records excellence
[Phil Vickery, In-Tune, Bcfm]

A slice of strangeness. Jittery, jumpy, overenergized, this release positively twitches with a stroboscopic kineticism
[Christopher Nosnibor – Aural Aggravation]

Both surreal and abstract, Black Bear Catapult craft an oddly alluring palette ...manages to wander along a crookedly lysergic landscape that strays delightfully between minimalist glitch groove, 70’s pastoral nostalgia – with a subtle nod to Ghost Box et al, mutant lounge dialects, quirky jazz doodles and the lost art of fun
[Mark Barton - The Sunday Experience]

Hyperactive beat with a mooching melody pushes my buttons
[Henry Courgette]

I've featured Ippu Mitsui before - but of course anything on your label already has a stamp of quality on it!
[Norman X Sane - Fylde Coast Radio)

Cheery stuff!
[Lend Me Your Underbelly]

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Black Bear Catapult - ‘Leopold Checks In At The Laughing house"

You can always count on the Scotland based imprint Bearsuit for your occasional sonic diet of the erratic and skewed. Not known for their playing by the rules abilities, they’ve forged a path that’s been beautifully bizarre and crookedly wayward not to mention so left field it’s on a different pitch whilst all the daubed with a sunny sided childlike innocence. Latest to their slyly expanding canon, a two track release sneaked out by Black Bear Catapult, a meeting of warped minds between Ippu Mitsui and Jimmy Finlayson, the latter of whom goes under so many musical disguises it’s a surprise he doesn’t suffer an identity crisis and more to the point, I think I’m right in saying, is Bearsuit main man accounting for the majority of these releases in some small shape or other, it all gets terribly confusing. Anyhow, two tracker, incidentally titled ‘the laughing house’ of which only the lead track ‘Leopold checks in at the laughing house’ is available on the band camp previewer. As ever with Bearsuit groove, both surreal and abstract, black bear catapult craft an oddly alluring palette which aside destined to appeal to those folk much missing the ear wares of Soft Bodies, manages to wander along a crookedly lysergic landscape that strays delightfully between minimalist glitch groove, 70’s pastoral nostalgia – with a subtle nod to Ghost Box et al, mutant lounge dialects, quirky jazz doodles and the lost art of fun, file under screwball and sit it alongside your early Casino vs. japan and frank wobbly and sons oddities.
[Mark Barton - The Sunday Experience]
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Black Bear Catapult - ‘Leopold Checks In At The Laughing house"

This one seemingly pinged in from nowhere finds BBC (that’s Black Bear Catapult, which consists of Ippu Mitsui and Jimmy Finlayson) deliver a slice of strangeness that combines hyperactive electropop backing of spacey synths which wibble and warp against a drum machine which flitters and stutters frenetically as if its programmer is on a rush of sugar and caffeine, bursting into double-time seemingly on a whim. Jittery, jumpy, overenergised, this release positively twitches with a stroboscopic kineticism. There’s a nice strolling bassline that emerges here and there during ‘Leopold Checks In At The Laughing House’, and while the overall tone is playful and a little bit daft, it’s something you can groove to. And I’m down with that!
{Christopher Nosnibor – Aural Aggravation]
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Written, recorded & produced by Black Bear Catapult

Black Bear Catapult are :
Ippu Mitsui and Jim Finlayson

(BEARSUIT043)

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released November 1, 2018

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