Dore Mear Beon - "Bimbos, Bozos, and Buffons"

It has to break your heart as a math rock band to hear a band like Dore Mear Beon that plays so much tighter and has such a better aesthetic than yours. The only thing worse? Every instrument was played by one guy!

Dore Mear Beon is Andrew Sagriff - on vocals, on drums, on guitar, on bass - and it all comes together in a math rock masterpiece that is cleaner and more cohesive than a sea of other post-rock / math rock bands.

"Bimbos, Bozos, and Buffons" is a stand-out track with an elegant restraint that lets the pauses between notes ring out as strongly as the crystal-clear guitar work. There's no mush of misused guitar distortion, no eleven-minute-long loud-soft-loud noodling, just an uncluttered climb through a geometric painting in an art gallery that is thankfully more Minus The Bear than HORSE the band.

Buy "Bimbos, Bozos, and Buffons" on the Dore Mear Beon EP

(Image via Dylan North / Dore Mear Beon on Facebook)