We have a new track out today! You can have a listen on Jazzwise if you want,its available on our bandcamp tomorrow and from all other digital places this week

also,please come to our gig on sunday at the electric! its going to be our last in london for a while

so happy to say weve been nominated for a MOBO!!!
feel so humbled and grateful

please vote for us here if youd like!

also excited for our double headline show with james holden at the electric in brixton on 15th november
if you havent heard james’s music i can wholeheartedly recommend it as something unusual,inspiring and moving
always remember how my ears pricked up the first time i heard him

please come!

hello

we’re playing in france,belgium and holland in the next two weeks
hope you can come and see us!

Fri 25 Sep 2015 La Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues, Paris, FRANCE
Sat 26 Sep 2015 La Grange a Musique, Creil, FRANCE
Wed 30 Sep 2015 **CANCELLED** Recyclart, Brussels, BELGIUM
Thu 1 Oct 2015 Vooruit, Gent, BELGIUM
Fri 2 Oct 2015 De Werf, Bruges, BELGIUM
Sat 3 Oct 2015 Rataplan, Antwerp, BELGIUM
Sun 4 Oct 2015 De Kelder, Amersfoort, NETHERLANDS
Wed 11 Nov 2015 Festiwal Jazz Jantar, Gdansk, POLAND

hello! you can hear part of our set at latitude on BBC Radio 3′s late junction if you missed it and would like to here.

hello,hope youre enjoying the beginning of summer

am really excited that we’re going to be playing a double headline show with the very inspiring electronic musician James Holden at The Electric in Brixton in november

tickets here

brixton is also where polar bear started so am also happy to be playing there again in my old neighbourhood

hope you can come!

also we have a new video made by jacek zmarz if you would like to see it – youtube / vimeo

its for our song dont let the feeling go

this is a song about finding a place or state of mind that gives you clarity and perspective and taking that with you wherever you may be

lastly,wanted to say that John has won the prestigious qwartz innovation award for his musical light interface!

seb

hello

enjoyed playing london, brighton, manchester, leeds and liverpool so much. looking forward to the rest of the tour this week!

we have taken the typewriter i used on the album artwork on tour with us. please come and write a message on it. i am posting the pages on our facebook, so you can tag your message if you like. i love reading what people write and hearing their experience of using a typrewriter,when i was typing the new album text it felt so alien, being so used to touchscreens and spellcheck, thought it would be fun to take it with us and share

leafcutter john is playing solo sets of his new material as support on our tour. he has put together a mixtape for the quietus. listen here

also i made a mix for solid steel of music i am enjoying at the moment. you can hear it below.

we have been nominated for two jazz fm awards. we feel very honoured. you can vote if you would like here.

we have a new show to announce in norwich on may 10th. all shows are here. hope to see you soon.

we’re playing a little live set in leeds for record store day if youd like to come

Jumbo Records 1pm tomorrow

we also play the Brudenell in the evening

hello!
you can hear our new album today if you want!

is a live stream from here
and also is available for preorder too and in the shops on monday
and there is an interview with Bandcamp here

hope you enjoy it

also..i made a podcast for soundcrash you can listen to here
a few tunes i like from other people
its also got an unreleased polar bear recording at the end -a different version of one of our new tunes and some other things i made

and…i had such a good time going on to tom robinsons show on saturday to share some more music i like,you can still listen here if you would like

hope you can come and see us on tour!!!

seb