POLAR BEAR - Held On The Tips Of Fingers (Reissue) - LP - Vinyl

LP - Standard Edition Black Vinyl (2025 Reissue). The album that launched Polar Bear into the spotlight, earning a Mercury Prize nomination and cementing their status as one of the most influential British jazz groups of the 21st century. 

Now, for the first time, this landmark album will be available on vinyl, bringing new life to a recording that helped redefine jazz for a new generation.

Polar Bear's second studio album originally released on Babel Label in 2005 and re-released by Leaf in 2014. This was the group's break-though album, with Observer Music Monthly placing the album at number 12 in its list of the "Top 100 Album of 2005"and Jazzwise listing the record at 100 in the article "100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World".

The success of Held On The Tips Of Fingers lead to Polar Bear being shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize in 2005. The album shows a distillation of the group's sound, with the enchanting compositions moving between hushed incantations and wild, swirling improvisations.

This long-awaited vinyl edition revisits an album that shaped modern British jazz and inspired a wave of experimental music that followed. 'Held on the Tips of Fingers' remains as vital and forward-thinking today as it was in 2005, standing as a testament to the groundbreaking vision of Seb Rochford and Polar Bear.

Tracklist: 

Side 1
1. Was Dreaming You Called You Disappeared I Slept
2. Beartown
3. Fluffy (I Want You)
4. To Touch the Red Brick
5. Held on the Tips of Fingers

Side 2
1. Argumentative
2. Your Eyes the Sea
3. The King of Aberdeen
4. Life That Ends Too Soon