Zebulon, a charming, French-style cafe with a small stage set up in the back, throbbed with people on a November Friday night. The Zebulon staff gamely maneuvered through the tight space, trying to accommodate the crush of people there to see Bear In Heaven. The show was somewhat of a fluke, really. The members of Bear In Heaven frequent the place and most live nearby. At the time they booked the performance, the group was accustomed to playing in low-key places. With the release of their newest album, "Beast Rest Forth Mouth," and a glowing Pitchfork review to accompany it, Bear In Heaven all of a sudden had a show that everyone wanted to go to.

In his review of "Beast Rest Forth Mouth," Pitchfork critic Eric Harvey wrote, "Take out the earbuds and let it fill a space: This is music that's bigger than your iPod-- music you'll want to feel all around you." In the sweaty, elbow-to-elbow confines of Zebulon that night, the crowd swayed with Jon Philpot's smoky synth and Joe Stickney's precise, muscular drumming. The music was certainly all around you.

The members of Bear In Heaven--Philpot, Stickney, as well as Adam Wills and Sadek Bazaraa--are originally from Georgia and Alabama and they've brought an easy, low-key charm with them to their adopted Brooklyn. The newfound success seemed funny to them more than anything else. A couple of days before the Zebulon show, the band was featured on an ABC News web video. Tweeting a link to the video, the band wrote, "Seriously... It doesn't get anymore surreal than this... ABC news. Charles Gibson laughs at our album title."