Claude says:Andrew Davie and Kevin Jones built Bear's Den out of London's folk scene in 2009, landing an Ivor Novello nomination for "Above the Clouds of Pompeii" before Jones departed in 2025. First Loves leans into their familiar ache — close harmonies, strummed folk arrangements, and narrative songwriting that splits the difference between heartbreak and homecoming. You grabbed it the month it dropped in 2023 and kept cycling back to "Evelyn" and "Summer & Smoke" through the autumn, then let it fade by winter's end.