ARIA Award winners Boy & Bear are back with their bold and brave new album, ‘Harlequin Dream’, set to be released on August 16th 2013.

Following their platinum selling, 5x ARIA Award-winning debut album ‘Moonfire’, Boy & Bear made a conscious decision to get back to their roots and record the album where it all began – Sydney. Recorded at the fabled Alberts studio, it was co-produced by Boy & Bear and Wayne Connolly, an ARIA-Award winner in his own right, and mixed by Seattle’s Phil Ek (Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes).

Triple J and Triple M favourite, ‘Southern Sun’, has a powerful urgency ( not unlike the best of Bruce Springsteen or Fleetwood Mac) while a sprinkling of strings and brass — played by living, breathing humans, not machines — brings life and colour to such standouts as ‘Back down the Black’, ‘Old Town Blues’ and ‘Stranger’.