Grizzly Bear

The whole album is available here:

http://www.grizzly-bear.net/songs/horn%20of%20plenty/

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.

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?

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

makes no sense whatsoever

the latest album is my least favorite of their releases, I think, or at least, the one that sticks in my mind the least.

did they do little brother, owen?

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.

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.

Never listened to Friend before -- cover of He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss) is fantastic.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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 mentioned it somewhere once but. Don't think anyone else joined in.

Cant's live show was/is really, really amazing.

So Painted Ruins is wonderful.

well this is hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPI7oU-fuGw

holy shit

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."

hahaha

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.

enjoying this
https://danielrossen.bandcamp.com/album/you-belong-there