“Brian McTear is known primarily as a producer, having manned the boards for Burning Brides, Mazarin, and a host of others, including orchestral indie popster Matt Pond PA, so his debut album as Bitter, Bitter Weeks comes as a bit of a shock. The same guy who's spent a career bricking and mortaring walls of sound for other musicians, it turns out, has a soft spot for the minimal, getting his strum ”