Grizzly Bear "Yellow House"

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I've been listening to it for a couple of months and I'm definitely, absolutely sure that it is brilliant.

― Owen Pallett (Owen Pallett), Sunday, 28 May 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, the question was: has anybody else heard it and wishes to comment?

Secretly, I'd like to talk about the similarities between them and Albert Marcoeur. And Debussy's "Jeux".

― Owen Pallett (Owen Pallett), Sunday, 28 May 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

i just posted about his on another thread. only heard the lullabye song and was subsequently blown away---shall be investigating further.

― possibly, Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

the warp thing is rather strange

― possibly, Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know Marcoeur or the Debussy, but I think it's great. That said, I have only listened to the secret stream Ed sent me which makes it hard to get a total handle on the thing.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

owen poos praise for gays

snarkyness aside i like what i've heard

― poos, Monday, 29 May 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

I am highly skeptical of your comparisons but curious to hear the record.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 29 May 2006 05:28 (nineteen years ago)

There are similarities in the melody writing to Albert Marcoeur. Not a lot of traditional melodic tropes, but instead, carefully placed "sour notes".

As for "Jeux", well... I feel that it's orchestral writing is the closest Debussy ever got to R-Korsakov's abilities. And if you listen to the language he uses, texturally, it sounds very similar to the sounds Grizzly Bear have created on their new record.

Unfortunately, I don't think my favourite songs from Yellow House have been blogged about yet. "Little Brother", "In The Yolk" and the doo-wop song are all blindingly good.

― Owen Pallett (Owen Pallett), Monday, 29 May 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

it must be said that the few songs that Warp's allowed to be blogged about are not necessarily the ones we would most want to...

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 29 May 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

Is this another of them that there fake band/album threads?

― The Notorious ESTEBAN BUTTEZ (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 29 May 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

would doo wop be the stereogum song owen?
ifso i wouldlikely find your statement correct...i'm not blind though but it is already worming around in my head

http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002642.html

― b00th (arghargh), Monday, 29 May 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

this album is really quite lovely. floating in and out of the ether...

this and the espers album make for dreamy summer listening.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 1 July 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

i have managed to scrape together most of this album online and really really like it. I hear a lot of van dyke parks in it, in a good way. i 've beeen so lazy lately about seeing live shows but some frineds of mine have suggested seeing htem live.

owen, i loved your remix of theirs by the way.

― boonah (boonah), Saturday, 1 July 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

My favorites are "Knife" and "Central & Remote". Everyone whom I've played the album for has had overwhelmingly positive responses. Even my friend Liza, a general skeptic of everything, became teary. Her voice deepened and she said "That was delicious."

I was really creeped out by that statement.

― Patrik Sandberg (cobaininacoma), Saturday, 1 July 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

describing non-food as delicious = classic

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Saturday, 1 July 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

i'd call it delicious. don't feel creeped

i think it, hot chip and tv on the radio, maybe a little voxtrot are my favorite albums of the year so far. i still find the whole warp thing amuzing. speaking of which, i finally am loving the jamie lidell stuff

― boonah (boonah), Sunday, 2 July 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

I was floored by "knife" after grabbing it from stereogum. Nothing on Horn of Plenty grabbed me quite the same way. I keep relistenling to it, expecting to find something I missed the first several times. I'm moderately excited to hear Yellow House.

― Dan Floss (Dan Floss), Sunday, 2 July 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

"I hear a lot of van dyke parks in it, in a good way."

i agree. and it is in a good way. and it's very rare that i hear it in a good way. cuz i've been sick of wilson/parks worship for years.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 2 July 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, it is rare. i don't see it as worship at all, just see bits and pieces and nothing really directly VDP

I'm always amazed when this band gets compared to animal collective. that to me is just lazy journalism

― boonah (boonah), Sunday, 2 July 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

this is not "freak folk"

― kevin barking (arghargh), Monday, 3 July 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

ok i got the full album. It's really a tremendous album, seems very well sculpted. A bit surprised to not see it discussed here more as I've been reading about it a bunch lately.
I would have to say "colorado" is my favorite track---quite thunderous in a epic exciting way. The harmonies do hark back to older stuff, but it's still a pretty unique album.

― boonah (boonah), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm always amazed when this band gets compared to animal collective. that to me is just lazy journalism

Thank you for saying that. I don't get almost ANY Grizzly Bear comparisons, but I think that must be a result of my opinion that they are totally mediocre. Have you seen them live? SNORE FESTIVAL INCORPORATED.

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

yellow house is great. i will probably never see them live.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Listen to their new album Trees. Granted I have no idea what taste in music you have, but it's great.

I'll agree first album was a bit snoozy, granted "pretty" snoozy, but snoozy.

― boonah (boonah), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

i love the new grizzly bear. i love the new vetiver. i love the new espers. and i don't think there is anything freaky about any of them.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

i'm with you on vetiver as will. Espers hasn't managed to grab me fully yet.

― boonah (boonah), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Boonah, my taste ranges widely. Admittedly, I mostly listen to dance music and old soul/gospel records, at least right now.

However, I saw Grizzly Bear when I was more into that vibe and still didn't like them. Then I saw them when I'd gotten out of that vibe (w/ Lichens and Soft Circle), and all I could think about was how much I loved Lichens and how dull the other two bands were in comparison. It's obvious to me that their songwriting skills are good, but I just find the sound they're going for a bit too flat for my taste, at the moment.

Espers first album will always be among my favorite sky-staring albums.

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

you love lichens????????
WHOA

I've seen him and I wanted to claw my ears out.

one of the most ridiculous pretentious shows I've seen in ages.

― boonah (boonah), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

i never revived the grizzly bear thread because i thought once this got closer to release date someone else would do it. i totally thought this would be one of those reaffirm-our-love-of-the-album-format things for other people here. but i'll interpret the lack of discussion as testament to the fact that maybe people here actually still buy records rather than download them... or at least i'd like to believe so.

this is probably my album of the year though... actually so far one of the only albums i bother listening to the way you're meant to (tracklist, on real speakers, etc).

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i assumed this would be a 'headphones album' but man, it opens itself right up on speakers - way way better, loud in a room.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Downloaded a few tracks for a test-drive:

Damn, there's some wonderful stuff on here. "Central and Remote", for instance. And "Plans" is one of the most mesmerizing things I've heard in ages. Lovely & bewildering. All this to say nothing of "Knife". Of which, if I were to say something, I'd probably say, HOLY CRAP, THAT'S GREAT!!! (But I'd make it more literate-sounding, and use fewer exclamation points.) Anyway, it's up there with the best songs of the year.

"On a Neck" and "Lullaby", however, didn't move me much, for whatever reason. Think I'll have to 'em sink in awhile before they work (or don't). And "Easier" is just okay. I notice that there's definitely a threshold-point for this stuff. The more I hear, the more it all sounds the same, and the less the individual songs retain their identies.

Would love to hear more. I'm curious, but also hesitant. I've got more affection for tunes than for tones. Wouldn't surprise me if the bulk of this added up to lovely but forgettable mush.

By the way, I think the mentions of Animal Collective in conjunction with this are perfectly appropriate. The vocal braiding at times feels very AC-ish. The midsection of "Central and Remote", for example. "On a Neck" sometimes leans that way, too. As do most of the others I mentioned above...

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wow, step away for a bit and it looks like some people have been hearing it. Fuckfucking. I hear what you are saying, however I find that there is a lot of variation in the songs and album. Perhaps a threshold for the album does get reaches, be it mostly because the songs take some attention and aren't exactly immediate, however I wouldn't even begin to call it "forgettable mush" mostly as that considering what's out there now, this strikes me and heads and tails more complex and memorable. Of course others will bed to differ, I just know I got a burnt copy of this and a bunch of my friends have it right now and at the moment I only hear good things. And then there was Trees...

― boonah (boonah), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Just for the record, I'm not calling it "forgettable mush". Not by any means. That was probably a poor choice of words. I really like what little I've heard. But only a few of the songs really stand out in my memory, even after listening to 'em several times.

Therefore, I wonder whether the rest of the songs will be out-of-the-park winners (like the spec-fucking-tacular "Knife"), or ... let's say more abstract in nature.

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

knife is definitely the poppiest, so if you are looking for more songs as poppy as that one, I'd say you might be out of luck. however, Knife is great, but I think so many of hte other songs are more memorable. COlorado is pretty poppy. you should check out that one.

― boonah (boonah), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

[salutes]

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

A sonic treat, this "Yellow House". Great arrangements, instrumentation, vocals. Not entirely sure if the songwriting is up to snuff, after several listens, but I'm willing to overlook that.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

So you might have an issue with the lyrics? I can see where you are coming from, but they seem sincere, whatever that means. I guess I just like the simplicity of them.

arrangements are definitely stand out here

― boonah (boonah), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

this is a fantastic album. I suspect ILXORs have been ignoring because much like myself I found the first album to be a bit of a non-event. This however has me taking note. The arrangements are fantastic and the harmonies as well. A band I couldn't have cared less about 2 months ago has likely made one of my favorite albums of the year. Funny how that works.

― ()()()---()()() (internet), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

I really like this album too! It's very pop obv which helps.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

I particularly like the slowed down walz track with Final Fantasy strings. Reminds me of some old warped 45

― ()()()---()()() (internet), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

this album sounds like mush

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

also sounds like meh

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

i'll try it again today but i've never been able to get past the first two songs, and i can't even remember what those two sound like.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

weird--guess we are not on the same page then. I think it's one of the best of the year.

― ()()()---()()() (internet), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

rare that i care what pitchfork says, but i'm really glad they gave grizzly bear the Best New Music tag. The album is so so so so good and (it's out yesterday, kids, get your copy today!). did the blog hype mean that you've already digested and are over this album? or are you still basking in its shimmery generosity?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

how is the new LP different from their first one, which was roundly ignored by music media/blogopolis?...(but it was actually pretty good)...

not having heard the new one, I approach with caution...the fact that both Pitchfork and Stylus rave about it seems a little fishy to me...

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

this album is great
i loved horn of plenty too

fishy or not at least they're getting what they deserve

― Chris Grasinger (gman59), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

it's fucking great

all should own it
hype or not

― ()()()---()()() (internet), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

the albums are pretty different, especially in terms of production. 'yellow house' is not a bedroom record (although, truth be told it was recorded in Ed's childhood living room, apparently) the quality of the songwriting on 'horn of plenty' was very high, but the songs (and their arrangements) are much more sophisticated and accomplished on the new record.

i'm so happy they're on warp because i think it will bring them the push and attention they need (and i guess people still talk about how a band veers away from the typical warp aesthetic, which brings added attention) to make the record a commercial success.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

On half a fresh listen, very very good. I want to spend time with it, that's for sure.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 120 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Shhhh... I'm (lurking, admittedly) right here. Every day. Feeling bold enough.
-Nets

― wolfwolfwolf (wolfwolfwolf), Thursday, 5 October 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I'm looking forward to seeing them live at the Scala--heard largely wonderful things. Was somewhat surprised at the reaction it had back home in the states compared to here in the UK. Here is didn't get that much attention (sadly) whereas back in the states it appears to be on top of everyone's lists, so much so rolling stone just did something on them. I guess we are too concerned with The Kooks right now to be bothered...A shame really. This album surely ranks high and above most of the releases this year.

― zippezappy (doomed), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

THE KOOOOOOOKS!!!!

― Owen Pallett (Owen Pallett), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

The show in San Francisco was really very awesome, and I subsequently purchased this fine CD.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

This revival has inspired me to play it again. Tis indeed very fine.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, San Francisco, and I'm assuming Sick Mouthy is in the states too. This supports my theory. The US gets this band and the UK does not. I shall see if I'm correct at the Scala show.

Is that really owen pallett?

― zippezappy (doomed), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

I really enjoyed Grizzly Bear at their Toronto show with TV On The Radio, and so did TV On The Radio. Most of the headliner's between-song banter focused on how good Grizzly Bear is. I found the Grizzly Bear performance kind of soothing, which was nice after a two-hour drive. I ended up buying Yellow House at the show and seem to be alternating between that and the new Califone for my listening pleasure.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

Smart Boy Binj, that califone is ACE

I'd say those 2 are in my top five of the year.

― zippezappy (doomed), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

I love listening to Grizzly Bear.
I like the "Deep Sea Diver" video too. Actually "fix it's" pretty good, too, the making out with manequinns and all.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Thursday, 9 November 2006 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

Sick Mouthy is definitely in the UK. not especially representative of the UK, though, perhaps.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, yeah, very much in the UK but also in Devon, so considerably apart from it too!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

well then that counts mr. mouthy

― zippezappy (doomed), Friday, 10 November 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

i wouldn't have imagined that Americans that like Grizzley Bear were particularly representative of the US either.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 November 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

pretty decent-sized write-up in the new issue of rolling stone. they used the words "blog" and "hipster" a lot.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 10 November 2006 06:20 (nineteen years ago)

Rolling STone is writing about them?

blog and hipster is used for just about every band with mild notoriety coming out of the US these days it seems. Are there such th ings as blog bands from the UK?

― zippezappy (doomed), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

:( what horrible news!

Remaining Tour Dates Cancelled

Dear all,

It's with sad news we have to announce the cancellation of our final 12 European dates. Daniel's father has been struggling with cancer recently, and in the past few days he's gotten increasingly worse. We were already toying with the idea of coming home early so that Daniel could be with his family… but then the straw that broke the camel's back was when our van was broken into last night in Brussels and a good amount of our instruments and gear was stolen, leaving us literally with only the clothing on our backs. With that said, we are incredibly sorry to have to cancel. We don't have the money to buy new equipment right now and frankly, we are taking this as a sign that Daniel should get home immediately. We send all our thanks to the wonderful people that came out to our shows thus far this fall. Hopefully we'll have our lives sorted out this winter and can hit the road again sometime soon.

Many, many thanks and much love
Grizzly Bear

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 13 November 2006 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

Seems like there's been a lot of van break-ins lately...

I've really been digging Yellow House recently.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Monday, 13 November 2006 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

it's always the small bands that get screwed with this. I remember reading about film school having this happen too. big bands can afford big busses which are close to impenetrable and always have a driver sleeping on the bus.

This sucks really badly.

― zippezappy (doomed), Monday, 13 November 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

Rolling Stone (and other print mags) routinely refer to Pitchfork as a blog-- they did in that Grizzly Bear review.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

mark i loved your review by the way. a lot.

― zippezappy (doomed), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

damn that really sucks. poor Grizzley Bear. was due to see them in just over a week.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone have the original version of Marla they could YSI?

― pernicus (pernicus), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

that blows that people took their shit, huh

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

getting your possesions stolen sucks so hard, my mom had her house broken into and they took a PHOTO ALBUM

who the fuck does that?

― pernicus (pernicus), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

marla: http://download.yousendit.com/8628E54B512CED49

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

whoa, the file is really corrupted, it's skipping like an old record player, which is funny because you can hear it was crapily recorded off of one. Sigh, I shall look elsewhere, but I appreciate the gesture Jed

― pernicus (pernicus), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

are you taking the piss? the original of Marla is by Ed in the band's great aunt and was recorded in the 30s. this is the file. unless you can find an original 78 of it that's as good as your going to get.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

and, i mean, it's not actually a bad rip it just sounds the way records sounded then!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

something must have happened during the yousendit transfer. I'm not joking. It's skipping the whole time. You can't make out anything past the first 20 seconds. I'll try downloading it again!

― pernicus (pernicus), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

ah ok, sorry! actually though, that corrupted file sounds excellent.

try this one:

http://www.yousendit.com/download/mYDKxZNQkY8%3D

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

ah thank you I shall download it now

― pernicus (pernicus), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

However many months later, I am still stunned by the beauty of this album. this has to be one of the best releases of '06.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 23 November 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

agreed. I have yet to get sick of it. I thought I was head over heels for Beirut, but I got tired of it. This, not yet, but it's bound to happen sometime soon.

― pernicus (pernicus), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

I just discovered this album and love it. Reminds me a little bit of circulatory system--It alongside Destroyer's Rubies strike me as the albums of 2006 that will be still be enjoyed in 2007 and 8 and maybe 9.

― tornup_andhurt, Monday, 19 March 2007 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

I really dig this album, too, but I think if it has a shortcoming it's the homogeneity of it. They do that whole slow-moving piano bassline a little too much, and sometimes I wish the vocals wouldn't sound so distant. Still, I think it's quite beautiful.

― St3ve Go1db3rg, Monday, 19 March 2007 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

I see your point, although to my untrained ears, it doesn't sound so homogenous but fairly diverse, and the vocals always seem lush to me. It has a bit of a Lull in the flow, but I think on a whole it's really an album's album.

― tornup_andhurt, Monday, 19 March 2007 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

The vocals are nice sounding, they've just always got that same kind of effect on them, you know? It seems like it would be a little strange to make that decision, to say "This is how the voices on this record will sound" and have it be this kind of artificial thing. I wonder if they planned from the start to make it that way, or decided during mixing. Which isn't to say it doesn't work, though.

And I definitely think it works as a whole, and that's how I listen to it. I tend to hear it as "The Knife and other songs," though.

― St3ve Go1db3rg, Monday, 19 March 2007 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

Knife was not what I grabbed on to at first. I enjoy it but it's not my favorite.

To me it sounds like there are a few different vocalists, and that provides enough variety in sound to me I guess.

― tornup_andhurt, Monday, 19 March 2007 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

i got this album over the summer and listened to it and liked it allright. then i gave it another whirl a few months ago and was blown away. i don't know why i didn't get it the first time round. it's wonderful.

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Monday, 19 March 2007 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

these guys are a fantastic live group, all 4 members sing really well. they did a great version of 'she hit me, it felt like a kiss' when i saw them and the harmonies were all dead-on. compared to their live show, 'yellow house' is pretty underwhelming for me. i wish the recording was a bit crisper and not so soft and reverby. the songs still hold up pretty well, they just seem really subdued when i think about how they sounded in a live setting

― 6335, Monday, 19 March 2007 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone else see them do "The Knife" on Carson Fucking Daly? Every time I wonder why he's still on the air, he gives a band like this their national TV debut and I hate less.

― marmotwolof, Monday, 19 March 2007 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

haven't seen carson daly nor do I ever plan on watching carson daly but tha'ts pretty cool of him. I have however seen the insane video for Knife with the star trek creature that uses stones to make veins flow out of a dude wiht a huge head. it's really really really weird.

― tornup_andhurt, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yep. Dudes are totes zany.

― Drooone, Monday, 19 March 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Going to the LA Philharmonic / Grizzly Bear thingie in a bit. Mmmm. Firebird!

― Turangalila, Sunday, 2 March 2008 03:09 (eighteen years ago)

(They're doing a small set without the orchestra, toward the end, apparently)

― Turangalila, Sunday, 2 March 2008 03:15 (eighteen years ago)

Are we due a follow-up this year?

― Scik Mouthy, Sunday, 2 March 2008 08:00 (eighteen years ago)

They played a new song, fwiw, Nick. Nice guys.

― Turangalila, Sunday, 2 March 2008 09:04 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

fuck this album is hitting me hard right now. not sure why, haven't heard it in years, i think it just resonates really well with my new apartment or something

― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 17:46 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/02/12/grizzly-bear-yellow-house-2006-veckatimest-2009/

― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 22:00 (thirteen years ago)

four years pass...

the opening two tracks on this have stuck with me for years, although i recently rediscovered and fell hard for On a Neck, on a Spit. knowing they were obsessed with Jim O'Rourke's production on his solo records squares a lot of things - and yes, lots of VDP style layering & mixing. it's such an immersive & expansive sound

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 05:58 (eight years ago)

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