So Gone is a record made in a period of change, personnel wise and musically. The band lost a member and then had to make a decision about what sort of record they were going to make. So Gone is a guitar album.

Bearhug decided they wanted to funnel the skeletons of the new songs through rhythmic intensity and guitar noise, rather than jangling guitars and looseness. Based on this ethos, recording with Owen Penglis at his new legitimate Goliath professional recording studio made sense. Recording consisted of layers of guitar tracks, sending Owen close to madness, as many were lost and discovered again during the mixing stage.

Some of these songs are a couple of years old and some were written weeks before recording but all were placed under the same set of rules we established in order to make a unified record, melodies laying over bubbling fuzz.

Lyrically the record is a scattershot exploration of the presents connection to the past, concerning adolescent dreams of adulthood, family ties, hindsight, social alienation, and the strength and fear in holding onto love.

Bearhug have toured with Bored Nothing, Stephen Malkmus, and Broken Social Scene. This record was influenced by Sic Alps, Sonic Youth, The Wrens, Mark Kozelek, Blank Realm, Drive by Truckers and Fugazi. So Gone is the band’s second full length.