Year End Picks: Vue Weekly
Himalayan Bear ... attacks the brilliant air (Self Righteous)

It’s as simple as this: Ryan Beattie is one of the best songwriters in Canada. He’s released three records as the crooning guitarist fronting Victoria’s cinematic baroque art-pop band Chet, and ... attacks the brilliant air is his second album under his sparer, slower solo-ish moniker, Himalayan Bear. This is some of the most haunting music you’ll ever hear, coaxed into being by a vivid storyteller with an almost haiku-ish sense of description and a love of the enigmatic, surreal and infinite.

- EDEN MUNRO