Not many bands go out of their way to make their jobs harder. But after a successful year touring behind 2017 record VOIDS, that’s exactly what Minus the Bear plan on doing, as they embark on a 10-year anniversary tour for their 2007 masterpiece, Planet of Ice. “That record is fucking challenging to play live,” says frontman Jake Snider. “But the challenge was one of the things that brought us back to it”. The Seattle outfit has been reinventing guitar-driven indie rock for the better part of two decades now, but Planet of Ice stands alone in their catalog. It’s the record my guitar nerd buddies and I would blast driving around on summer nights, all trying to wrap our heads around the intricate compositions. It’s a dense prog-rock odyssey, and compared to the playful math-rock hooks of their previous work, Planet of Ice felt less like evolution, and more like full-blown transformation. “Menos El Oso had done pretty well,” Snider reflects on their 2004 breakthrough record. “But we wanted to take a detour and make it bigger and more ambient — songs with more breadth to them.” On the first day of the anniversary tour, the band released a…