Dim Lit

Dim Lit is the debut album by British jazz band Polar Bear, formed and led by drummer Sebastian Rochford.

Background
Polar Bear were awarded Best Band at the BBC Jazz Awards 2004, giving Dim Lit a platform for small scale success. It was eventually surpassed by their following album Held on the Tips Of Fingers (2005), which was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize.

The album was initially released on Babel Label and re-issued by The Leaf Label in 2014.

Reception
The Guardian write that this album "captures (Polar Bear's) unique virtues" and that it "goes straight on to the albums-of-2004 longlist". The BBC call Dim Lit "a finely crafted album" in their review of the follow-up album.

Track listing
All tracks written by Seb Rochford

Polar Bear

 * Pete Wareham — tenor saxophone
 * Mark Lockheart — tenor saxophone
 * Sebastian Rochford – drums, percussion, drum programming
 * Tom Herbert – double bass

Additional musicians

 * Julia Biel – vocals (6)
 * Ben Davis – cello (3, 10)
 * John Greswell – viola (3, 6, 10)
 * Adam Bishop – bass clarinet (6)
 * Robert Harder – piano (7)