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== Music ==

The Art Bears's music was often deeply political in content, reflecting the band's [[socialist]] leanings, and frequently [[experimental music|experimental]]. Art Bears were more "song oriented" than Henry Cow, although much of the material that comprised their debut album release was actually written with the intention of being performed by the latter band.

Their music was dark in concept and in atmosphere.<ref> {{cite web |url=http://www.gepr.net/ar.html |title=Art Bears |work=New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock |accessdate=2006-12-28}} </ref> Reviewing ''The Art Box'', the [[BBC]] described it as: "Carefully wrought dissonances, angular folk tunes, sudden shifts in dynamics, dense layers of spectral drones, slabs of noise, topped off with Dagmar's strange, elastic Sprechstimme." <ref> {{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/4hdp/ |title=Art Bears, The Art Box |work=BBC Music |first=Peter |last=Marsh |accessdate=2006-12-28}} </ref>