Claude says:Bear's Den—the London duo who came up through the folk-rock touring circuit with Ben Howard and eventually landed on Communion, the label one of them co-founded—deal in big, aching harmonies and guitar lines that feel like they're reaching for something just out of frame. Islands arrived the month it came out and stuck hard: you ran it heaviest in 2015, came back strong in 2021, and you're still pulling up "Agape" and "Above the Clouds of Pompeii" more than a decade later.