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http://www.thedelimagazine.com/covers/1st.jpg
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Early Adopter Indie "These are the newest and coolest products our customers of Indie are buying. This list, updated daily, is based entirely on purchase patterns."
#07 - "Hilary Duff & Friends - Break Away Hits (karaoke)"#10 - "Sinatra On Sax"#51 - "Sing The Hits of Ashlee Simpson (karaoke)"#87 - "Maximum Nickleback" #96 - "Horn Of Plenty"
Wow.
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― sarah foley, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
The whole album is available here:
http://www.grizzly-bear.net/songs/horn%20of%20plenty/
― todd (todd), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― owen reading, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
sarah, they are touring soon... feb and march, i think... dates still coming out, apparently... but the ones that are known are up at their site... apparently they sound different live though because they have new members now.
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they got reviewed in pitchfork today in a favorable way and got listed on dusted. they're coming to my town soon and for this i am very happy. in the full disclosure area, the singer is my friend which is perhaps somewhat awkward to note given the latter bit of this thread. but they are fully deserving of the attention... anyone feeling this shit yet?
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Friday, March 25, 2005; Page WE08
GRIZZLY BEAR "Horn of Plenty"Kanine
While hip-hop, teen-pop and nu-metal battle for the future, a new generation of psychedelic folkies has unexpectedly arisen. From Tokyo to Stockholm to (of course) Brooklyn, N.Y., these troubadours make music that's odd, quiet and sometimes irksomely childlike; they may use electronics, but rely heavily on acoustic guitars and intimate vocals. Although hardly the goofiest of the lot, Grizzly Bear is not unrepresentative.
The 14 tracks on "Horn of Plenty" began as Brooklyn singer-songwriter Edwin Droste's demos and didn't become substantially more ornate once Christopher Bear appended his singing and playing. (Since the album was recorded, multi-instrumentalist Chris Taylor has also joined.) Actually, there are many layers to these recordings; they aren't simply unplugged guitar and untempered sincerity. Yet the album's sound is deliberately scruffy, a blend of homemade electronica, languid raga-rock and lots of reverb. With their drowsy melodies, boys' choir harmonies and low-tech effects, such songs as "Showcase" and "Merge" resemble a back-porch jam session's take on "Good Vibrations."
If such comparisons suggest Grizzly Bear is a little precious and more than a little half-baked, that's about right. By the standards of this newly reborn genre, however, "Horn of Plenty" is reasonably focused and unusually tuneful. It's a somewhat vague trip, but not a bad one.
-- Mark Jenkins
Appearing Monday at DC9 with the Chance and Something for Rockets
― steve-k, Saturday, 26 March 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link
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― still, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link
makes no sense whatsoever
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A++++ highly recommended
― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Friday, 9 February 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Friday, 9 February 2007 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Man, the acappella version of "Knife" from the kexp compilation is quite astounding.
― van smack, Saturday, 3 November 2007 01:39 (sixteen years ago) link
love that video
― am0n, Saturday, 3 November 2007 02:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I was literally listening to Knife when I came on ILM and this was the top thread.
Freaky.
― three handclaps, Saturday, 3 November 2007 02:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Been listening to Yellow House a lot lately. Wonderful record.
― Scik Mouthy, Sunday, 4 November 2007 11:18 (sixteen years ago) link
yes it really is wonderful. the alternate version of "Easier" that they released as a single is much greater than the, already great, original version.
― jed_, Sunday, 4 November 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
It cracks me up that they played with Something for Rockets.
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Sunday, 4 November 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Schreiber reviewed the new Friend EP today and gave it BNM.
― three handclaps, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I may have to go pick this up.
good show in ny couple of days ago.nice atmosphere. good band for watching while seating.
― Zeno, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Funny Grizzly Bear(ish) story.
― Billy Pilgrim, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
xxxpost i hate when reviewers go through an album song-by-song in a review.
― stephen, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice new song played on kcrw.
― Freedom, Sunday, 22 June 2008 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/images/2008/06/20/animal_style.jpg
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 23 June 2008 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
why are they not bad?
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone up for a bit of verbal masturbation over the songs they've been previewing recently? "While You Wait for the Others" and "Two Weeks" are far and away the best things I've heard this year. And I second the love for the acapella on the street version of "Knife".
― Freedom, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Very nice harmonies, but aside from that, this is another band whose appeal I don't get (aside from the awesome Knife). The new song on their MySpace page -- While You Wait for the Others -- is okay, but indistinct (which is my complaint about most of their songs).
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
One of the few remaining arguments for paying attention to indie.
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
seriously brilliant.
I keep hearing "brilliant!" about Grizzy Bear. Maybe they're just not made for my (lol old lol) ears. I'll try listening to the band again.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
It's good to listen to them in order, that is start with horn of plenty. First few tracks of Friend EP are probably the best thing they've ever done though. Alligator Choir version esp
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I just saw them live, and I'm more impressed with them as a live act than I am with them on record. The harmonies just seemed so much stronger and less buried in the mix. They should really bring them out more on the recordings, because that's their strongest point.
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
don't you like the ambiguity that it lends?
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw Grizzy Bear do live backing vocals (of Knife) to a Girl Talk song on Pitchfork.tv recently (I think it happened at last year's Pitchfork festival). Based on that live clip, I think Melissa's OTM.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
They sound so fucking great it's near annoying. The Letterman version of Two Weeks sounds a bit muddy though is there a proper take on it anywhere?
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost, this nearly put me off them
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
With Daniel: Knife is amazing, nothing else by the band has appealed to me half as much. Think they're better than okay, though.
(Was that faint enough? Is it still coming through?)
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I assume all you Knife enthusiasts haven't heard Alligator (choir version) then?
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
On A Neck, On A Spit is better than Knife, surely?
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
^this
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
The new song on their MySpace page -- While You Wait for the Others -- is okay, but indistinct Madness. The letterman version is what I'm basing my Two Weeks appreciation so can't be that muddy. The harmonies are certainly clear.
― Freedom, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Not to me, but I may be bats--t crazy, I guess. In fact, in ILX talk, Knife >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On A Neck (to me).
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
blogotheque grizzly bear made me realise this
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Knife isn't even in the top tier of the songs on Yellow House.
― jed_, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i think my favourite of theirs is the alternate version of Easier. they are incredible live.
― jed_, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
-- jed_, Wednesday, August 6, 2008 12:51 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
In the context of what most closely approximates popping 4 Tylenol PMs, I'd have to agree
― skygreenleopard, Friday, 8 August 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
The "each day / spend it with me yeah / all my time / spend it with you year" bit was perhaps my favourite thing in all music from 2006 that I heard.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 8 August 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Knife is like a hit but surely there are a lot of other great stuff, it's just not stuff of hits, it's something else. great band
― sonderangerbot, Saturday, 9 August 2008 02:37 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone feeling dept. of eagles?
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Friday, 7 November 2008 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i like it fine. it's no yellow house, but I think it stands on its own just fine. it's more of an exploration of dan's styles, which is cool. i'm really really looking forward to the next grizzly bear album though.
― Kevin Keller, Friday, 7 November 2008 06:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i like the record because it's a sunny pop album that you can listen to as it gets cold without feeling perverse
― barack husession (J0rdan S.), Friday, 7 November 2008 07:09 (fifteen years ago) link
So apparently they had a guest star or two today.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
a grizzly bear?
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Is that what they call him these days:
http://twitter.com/skeetonmytwitts/statuses/3653814003
http://twitpic.com/fwg04
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I like Maura's take:
http://twitter.com/maura/status/3653827386
Haha. Beardos and Beyonce.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo don't do it jay
― fo shza my tza (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
already fucking around w/coldplay but grizzly bear? don't give them any more undeserved legitimacy
― fo shza my tza (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Future Jay-Z collaborators: Foghat, Air Supply, They Might Be Giants.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm sure there are one or two last remaining mashup artists out there who will oblige you.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually Jay-Z/Air Supply has potential.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 31 August 2009 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, never mind.
if only jay-z would consult w/ ilm before deciding which indie rock bands he's supposed to like
― iatee, Monday, 31 August 2009 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
No, no; I was just clowning. I like the new Grizzly Bear disc, and the Jay-Z collaboration sounds cool.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 31 August 2009 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
So sick of hearing about this mediocre indie dribble.
― Spinspin Sugah, Monday, 31 August 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
ya your life must be pretty tough
― iatee, Monday, 31 August 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
HAHAHAHA
― Turangalila, Monday, 31 August 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
― Spinspin Sugah, Monday, August 31, 2009 2:24 PM
Yeah, because it's not like there are any currently updated threads on the front page about Neil Young, Mariah Carey, Chris Brown, Kraftwerk, Rush, Womack & Womack, Bert Jansch, ZZ Top, James Brown and Terence Trent D'Arby that you could visit instead. ILM = All Grizzly Bear, All The Time!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
enthusiasm for what you spontaneously like --> enthusiasm for indie + disdain for what you used to spontaneously like --> disdain for indie + enthusiasm for what you spontaneously like + enthusiasm for obscure/difficult music and pop music --> enthusiasm for what you spontaneously like, conditioned by a deeper appreciation of many genres + disdain for what you genuinely dislike
― kshighway, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Spinspin Sugah is probably somewhere in the "disdain for indie + enthusiasm for what you spontaneously like + enthusiasm for obscure/difficult music and pop music" stage.
― kshighway, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone heard the version of "While You Wait For The Others" with Michael McDonald on vocals? Fairly WTF.
― Number None, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I was just looking for that. Guess I'll have to wait until I get home to download it from iTunes.
― jaymc, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I streamed it from herehttp://volume-knob.blogspot.com/2009/08/jay-z-hearts-grizzly-bear.html
― Number None, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
this sort of sounds like the band can't count
― a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine (HI DERE), Monday, 31 August 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Excellent, thanks, NN!
― jaymc, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Is Michael McDonald really singing about 'the perfect cleft' in that chorus?
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Monday, 31 August 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, I wish Michael McDonald did this more often
― iatee, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, I guess I was standing about 15-20 yards away from Jay-Z yesterday, then.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Heard "Two Weeks" on Conan recently and the song is like a jammier version of the Rascals' "Beautiful Morning."
I think that a lot of the Nu-Pagan bearded animal bands sound like the kind of music mid-60s pop bands made around 1968 or 1969, when they were trying to adapt to the hippie-era before their popularity ran dry, and hiring an Eastern guru was a sound business decision. The touchstones seem to be the Hollies' Butterfly, Notorious Byrd Brothers, the Beach Boys' Sunflower et al.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 08:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Just got back from seeing them with the london symphony orchestra. Epic amazingness.
― Jamie_ATP, Sunday, 1 November 2009 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Bear's drumming, it never ceases to amaze.
― Tourtière (Ówen P.), Sunday, 1 November 2009 09:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe I had built this up too much in my mind, but i was a little disappointed. It was still very good though. I liked the way that the orchestration added more details to some of the songs, but at times I struggled to hear the orchestra under the band.
Owen, were you there? I thought I saw someone who looked like you.
― Jill, Sunday, 1 November 2009 10:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it depends on where people were sitting; i was on front row so got a lot of drums and guitar, but thought maybe further back the mix would be more balanced? Regardless of that they seem to get better every time i see them and the orchestra was a big added bonus
― Jamie_ATP, Sunday, 1 November 2009 12:18 (fourteen years ago) link
That's probably true. I was at the front last night too. For efterklang I was sat halfway up in the stalls and it sounded a lot better
― Jill, Sunday, 1 November 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Yup, I was there. I loved it... the band was in great form.
The problem with band+orchestra style performances is that the audience will tend to expect massive changes and rearranges from all the additional personnel. In cases like Grizzly Bear's, where the band is already so fully formed, there's really no room for all that much orchestral embellishment.
Most of the time, it worked great. Every song had a moment of transcendence... "Foreground" and "Ready, Able" especially were pretty special.
― Tourtière (Ówen P.), Sunday, 1 November 2009 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
the latest album is my least favorite of their releases, I think, or at least, the one that sticks in my mind the least.
― akm, Sunday, 1 November 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
did they do little brother, owen?
― Turangalila, Sunday, 1 November 2009 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i could imagine them drawing out foreground quite a bit with the help of an orchestra. it's so full of space, and that rare type of melody you can just play forever.
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 1 November 2009 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i still love veckatimest, but i'm starting to wonder if it actually is better than yellow house or horn of plenty. i really like the idea of a more compact and precise grizzly bear, but they've maybe lost too much of their glowing, silverey atmosphere to the cause. i suspect their next album will take a half-step back towards their earlier strengths. or they could do something totally different that they've never done before, which so far seems to be the their game plan.
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 1 November 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Never listened to Friend before -- cover of He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss) is fantastic.
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
this is a good grizz sounding record that's better than actual grizz records (& it's prod by one of the grizz dudes)
http://www.seizurechicken.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bigecho.jpg
― J0rdan S., Monday, 17 May 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
even tho it's a pretty airy record it feels less hollow to me than grizz's songs -- also prob part of it has to do with hype (sorry), like i can meet morning benders on a "this is a cool, mellow, sunshiney record with good singing and some nice arrangements" & leave it at that where with grizz i'm like "what do people here in this? i guess it's okay but... what?" and i kind of reject it & move on to something else cuz i don't see myself ever meeting it on that level
ppl should listen to this morning benders thing tho
― J0rdan S., Monday, 17 May 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
hear* obv
also i listened to this cuz whiney gave it a 7 on twitter, so big ups
Whiney gave an indie record a decent score?
― ksh, Monday, 17 May 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
heard parts of this on YouTube or whatever -- didn't see the big deal. i should probably seek some of their stuff out in a higher-quality format
i made this thread, The Morning Benders - Big Echo but it seems no one on ILM really was interested,
this album is pretty good thou.
― Bee OK, Monday, 17 May 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, it's not a "big deal" so to speak -- even by pfork standards it's pretty much this year's cymbals eat guitars or whatever -- but it's just a nice palette cleanser sort of thing -- pleasant throwback beach rock -- would make good background music if you were reading outside
― J0rdan S., Monday, 17 May 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that's sort of how i felt about whatever i heard. not that it was awful, but i could more or less take it or leave it
― ksh, Monday, 17 May 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
is there a thread where we talk about Cant (Chris Taylor's solo project)? Dreams Come True, 2011, is pretty great and not very grizzly bearish, more like sadsack R&B-influenced lo-fi electronic music.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
I mentioned it somewhere once but. Don't think anyone else joined in.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
Cant's live show was/is really, really amazing.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 10 June 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
So Painted Ruins is wonderful.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 19 August 2017 06:47 (six years ago) link
well this is hilarioushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPI7oU-fuGw
― niels, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
holy shit
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
One of my favorite anecdotes from peak Brooklyn indie rock came from a video interview with Holy Ghost, where they talk about having lunch with one of the Grizzly Bear dudes. They tell them about their new song with Michael McDonald, and GB are like, "Wait no, we have a new song with Michael McDonald."
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
hahaha
― niels, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 10:47 (five years ago) link
Honestly never think about this band that often, so I suppose no surprise that I *was* surprised that it's been four and a half years since the last one, and also that I guess Ed Droste left the band last year. Covid time simultaneously flies fast and slow in both directions.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
enjoying thishttps://danielrossen.bandcamp.com/album/you-belong-there
― + +, Thursday, 14 April 2022 10:32 (two years ago) link