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When the national radio broadcaster Triple J unearthed Boy & Bear in 2009, the zeitgeist snatched them up, up, up. Not only did their name feature a creature of the American woods at a time when foxes, deer, wolves and bears of both panda and grizzly breeds were in high demand, but their music matched the family-friendly folk-pop thus signified. Boy & Bear’s 2013 album Harlequin Dream had a bit of Bruce Springsteen’s everyman allure and a bit of Fleetwood Mac’s guilty pleasure party vibe. They shied short of whistling but, still, the five men from Sydney’s northern beaches seemed one Blundstone boot away from writing a world-conquering anthem like Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. They didn’t, but Harlequin Dream did debut at No 1 on the Aria charts. Limit of Love, however, doesn’t test anyone’s limits. To its merit, it is crisper and less rustic than the previous two albums. The single Walk the Wire encapsulates this sensation best. It leaps from the starting gates as sleek and hungry as a Melbourne Cup favourite no one can wrest their eyes from until it streaks past the finishing line. There are only two synthesiser notes and a handful more on guitar and bass but they’re so effective they seem lab-tested. This song is impossible not to like – Boy & Bear know this, everyone knows this. Limit of Love will polarise no one. It will bring daytime-dancing bliss to sunburnt festival crowds and it will be played a lot on the radio. The album has already hit No 1 on the Aria charts. And the guys will cram genially into radio studios – pros, by now – and talk about how it was recorded with minimal fuss in Peter Gabriel’s Real World studio and, later, in a rental on the New South Wales south coast, an experience Hoskings describes in the press release as: “Just being with the boys, in a space where you have gear set up, you have fridge full of great food and wine, playing music and surfing.”
Record Label: Nettwerk
Style: Folk / Pop
