The Bear Quartet were an indie rock group from Luleå in northern Sweden. The band was formed in 1989 and split in 2010. They made records at a steady rate from 1992, with their debut album, Penny Century, to 2010 with their final album Monty Python.

The Bear Quartet were Mattias Alkberg on vocals and guitar, Jari Haapalainen on guitar, Peter Nuottaniemi on bass guitar, Jejo Perkovic on drums and Carl Olsson on keyboards. Peter and Mattias wrote the lyrics, Mattias, Jari and Carl wrote the music.

The Bear Quartet spawned many side projects, they can almost be seen as the "hub" of Swedish pop music. Mattias sings and plays in Mattias Alkberg BD, whose debut album Tunaskolan released in 2004 was very well received by the critics and audience. Punk in Swedish. Jari produces lots of other artists, such as Nicolai Dunger, Ed Harcourt, Kristofer Åström, The Concretes and Frida Hyvönen, and plays with Maria from The Concretes in Heikki. Carl has Paddington DC, some kind of noise electro pop.

The name "Bear Quartet" is taken from Klas Östergren's book Gentlemen.

The album titles follow an interesting naming scheme: every title is two words, of which the first ends with a "y".
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