Bear's Den Tickets

British folk rock band Bear's Den are an alternative indie duo – originally a trio – who have been making music together for over a decade. Composed of Andrew Davie and Kev Jones, the band released their first album, Islands, in 2014 with the single Above the Clouds of Pompeii being nominated for an Ivor Novello award in 2015.

The group have also unveiled details of a full UK, Europe, and North America 2022 tour and the release of their eagerly anticipated fourth studio album, Blue Hours.

Set for release on 13 May via Communion Records, the album sees the much-loved folk-rock duo – made up of Andrew Davie and Kevin Jones – once again team up with producer Ian Grimble on what is one of their most personal records to date.

Speaking about the new album, which can be pre-ordered here, Davie says: “Blue Hours is a kind of imaginary space you get into at night, a place where you process difficult things or where you try to figure everything out.”

Themes on the album include both self-reflection and mental health after both struggled with the latter in recent years. “It’s the main over-arching theme with this record,” Davie explains. The group, who have worked with mental health charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) previously added: “It probably speaks to our struggles and hopefully many other people’s too. Men are not very good at talking. We’re not really taught how to – men have no idea how to talk about this stuff, certainly to each other.”

The pair describe the conceptual blue hours headspace that gives the new album its title as being “somewhere between a hotel, a mental health hospital, a bar that stays open later than anywhere else, a paradise, a dream, a nightmare and an endless sea of corridors and staircases leading you to rooms that represent memories – good, bad, happy or difficult.”