Long Beard - Means To Me

Means To Me is the second full-length under Leslie Bear's moniker, Long Beard, and her first since 2015's Sleepwalker. Throughout the record, Leslie explores what constitutes a home - how it extends beyond the physicality of a roof over your head to the comfort of another person. A sense of self, stability or security. The last four years between records mark a particularly significant and transitional time for Bear. A career move led her back to her hometown in New Jersey long after her friends and peers moved away, resulting in feelings of stasis and nostalgia that shape the album. Reflections on the past are evident in tracks like album single "Sweetheart," in which Bear considers a past love, where they are now, and her life in relation to theirs.