Name: Means To Me
Brand: Long Beard

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD 06224

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-09-13

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

644110406224

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Artist

Long Beard

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Double Double Whammy

In the four years since Sleepwalker, Leslie Bear’s debut album as Long Beard, the singer-songwriter moved back to her native New Jersey—but the friends who’d once made it feel like home were long gone. Their absence left Bear with questions: What is home? What happens when a place ceases to elicit the familiarity and community it once did? That’s the riddle of “Means to Me,” the title track of Long Beard’s upcoming second record.<br><br>The song finds Bear reflecting on an expiring relationship that once offered the same comfort as her hometown. Her airy vocals and reverb-heavy strums evoke dream-pop virtuosos like Mazzy Star or, more recently, Japanese Breakfast, whose own Craig Hendrix co-produced Means to Me. But Bear roots her lamentations in propulsive drums and ride cymbals that pull the track down to Earth. “We wanted it/It must mean something/Time with you and me, remember?” she croons, grasping for certainty and coming up empty-handed. “Home sweet home/I don’t know what it means to me.” The track dangles somewhere between the sky and the ground, and Bear’s center is equally tricky to pinpoint. Whether home is a place or a person, here or elsewhere, is still for her to discover.

Means To Me

Music US