Ball of Wax 54 Songs: Grumpy Bear – “Offer Up Sound”

I’m so delighted that Grumpy Bear has arisen from their long slumber, and that they (and their members) keep sharing weird new music – and writing – with us. With “Offer Up Sound,” Tyler and Lattney offer up a song that would be simple, short, and sweet (acoustic guitar, some pretty arpeggiated guitar and keys, straightforward vocal delivery) were it not for the ever-shifting time signatures, which provide complexity and a vague sense of unease that keeps you clicking back to the beginning to grab ahold of it with one more spin through its all-too-brief running time. Lyrically, I don’t know exactly what’s being talked about here (I never do), but I love the line “with my ears to the ground and my hand in yours, I’ll offer up sound when sound occurs.”