Brooklyn’s own Bear In Heaven will return with their third LP, I Love You, It’s Cool, on April 3rd via Hometapes/Dead Oceans. As the band revealed in a recent interview with Stereogum, the record spans 10 tracks and marks the first time the band recorded in a studio. The end result is said to be “bit more up-tempo” and “less testosteroney” than 2009′s Beast Rest Forth Mouth.

Right now, the band’s website is streaming the new album in full, though they’ve slowed the whole thing down some 400,000%. In other words, it’ll take you up until the album’s April 3rd release date to hear the whole thing. As the band explains:

As a band, we have always sought to balance our interest in art and outsider music with a sense of humor about our place within the entertainment industry. When we began discussing the making of our third record 2 recurrent themes emerged:

1. the desire to release a companion piece of music that was more abstract and drone based than the material we had played every night for the last 18 months or will likely play for 18 months straight following the release of this record.

2. an equal desire to have a little lighthearted fun & comment on the current state of album promotion, hype cycles, countdowns and all the marketing ploys that we accept as a reality of existing within an internet age.

At some point these two ideas merged into one. We would stream our album earlier and for longer than anyone else had before but we’d stream it once. We’d stretch it far beyond the limits of being recognisable as pop music. Draw it out so that snare roll lasts for days. Invite listeners to interpret & consider each sound. sit back and breathe.

With that said, your first chance to hear the material up to speed will probably come March 28th, when the band launches a U.S. Spring tour. Check out the itinerary below.

Bear In Heaven 2012 Tour Dates:
03/28 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Andy Warhol Museum
03/29 – Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop
03/30 – Columbus, OH @ The Basement
03/31 – Cincinnati, OH @ MOTR Pub
04/01 – St. Louis, MO @ The Luminary Center for the Arts
04/04 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah
04/05 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
04/08 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
04/12 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
04/13 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
04/14 – Vancouver, British Columbia @ The Biltmore Cabaret
04/17 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
04/18 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas
04/20 – Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar
04/21 – Nashville, TN -@Exit/In
04/22 – Memphis, TN @ Hi-Tone Cafe
04/24 – Austin, TX @ The Parish
04/25 – Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s
04/26 – Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree
04/27 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
04/28 – Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle
04/29 – Raleigh, NC @ Kings Barcade
05/01 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat Backstage
05/02 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
05/03 – Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
05/04 – Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa
05/05 – Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
05/06 – Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt
05/08 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
05/09 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg