Bear Quartet (The) - Monty Python *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 5th June 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

First time on vinyl. One of Sweden’s most iconic albums finally receives a long-awaited vinyl release — the legendary Swedish band The Bear Quartet’s final album, “Monty Python”. Created in a burst of creativity and conceived as a sibling album to the prior release “89”, “Monty Python” became the band’s swan song in 2010. “Monty Python” is a strange and exhilarating artifact from a band that built its reputation on constant reinvention. Released during a period when the group was pushing beyond indie rock’s familiar boundaries, the record unfolds like a collage of jagged pop instincts, lo-fi textures, and wry humor. It carries many of the elements that defined The Bear Quartet’s career while sounding unlike anything they had recorded before. By the end of the ’90s the band had largely moved past conventional pop, no longer interested in repeating sentimental classics like “Mom and Dad” or “It Only Takes a Flashlight to Create a Monster.” Instead, “Monty Python” pushes forward — restless, strange, and unmistakably their own. The album assembles moods, textures, and fragments of melody into songs that reward close listening, balancing dry humor with a quietly melancholic tone. Unpredictable, playful, and artistically fearless, “Monty Python” captures a band dismantling its own sound in search of something sharper and more beautiful. Today it stands as both a creative detour and a fitting final statement from one of Sweden’s most influential bands — and a record the band members themselves count among their proudest achievements.

Track Listing:

You You You You You You

We're Not Gonna Make It

Fist Or Hand

Two Losers

Escape From Promille Hill

Dogs

Promille Hill

Lovers Goodbye

Silent Film

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