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When it comes to their bands its like even if its not the thing that I want to listen to, I know that it's still good quality. We all appreciated that because the label seems to have good taste when picking out quality music as well as music that will have a longer life. -Chris Bear on being picked up by Warp Records |
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Grizzly Bear by Christie Harrison |
It's rather quaint and welcoming how an American band has cut an album that could be The Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society if the Brit-rockers had lived in an isolated commune with LSD spiked water. "Central and Remote" radiantly combines airy harmonies with Eastern droning while tracks like "Little Brother" show Grizzly Bear's ability to zig instrumentally with retro cinematic film score infusions and zag melodiously, fitting the two perfectly like puzzle pieces. Grizzly Bear shows how a band's sound can be vivid and colorful without overdoing it.
Taylor doesn't see it so much as evolution or rebirth but instead credits the new album's dynamic to the merging of individual member's musical pallets and instrumental guile, as well as sharing the songwriting duties.
"Yellow House is an album with all four of us working together so there is a lot more people's musical backgrounds coming into it and everybody is a multi-instrumentalist to some degree. Where the first album was written by one person - and it sounds like it - we originally worried that this album wouldn't be cohesive enough because things were coming from so many different places compositionally," Taylor comments. "Also, when we listened to how the songs sounded we asked ourselves what kind of record were we making and we really didn't know. So, it was sort of stressful".
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While in the midst of recording in a house in Boston where Droste grew up, Bear recalls how the band had no label to call home midway through the process until Warp, a label respected by the band, came along following the discovery of some rudimentary demos. "During the time when we were taking a break from recording [Yellow House] we sent out demos of six songs that were relatively put together but not all finished and [Warp] just found it somehow. We didn't even contact them. When it comes to their bands its like even if its not the thing that I want to listen to, I know that it's still good quality. We all appreciated that because the label seems to have good taste when picking out quality music as well as music that will have a longer life."
After being hand picked by TV On The Radio for the opening slot on their Fall tour and another high profile opening gig with Feist coming up, life, in terms of critical and fan reception, is good for Grizzly Bear. Just don't ask them to sum up what kind of music they play. Holding back laughter, Bear retorts, "That's one of the hardest questions that you could ever ask and I still think that I don't have an answer."
GRIZZLY BEAR TOUR DATES
06.08 | Northampton, MA Calvin Theater (Supporting FEIST)
06.09 | Boston, MA Berklee Performance Center (Supporting FEIST)
06.13 | Washington D.C., DC 9:30 Club (Supporting FEIST)
06.14 | Greensboro, NC Carolina Theater (Supporting FEIST)
06.15 | Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse (Supporting FEIST)
06.20 | Minneapolis, MN Pantages Theater (Supporting FEIST)
06.22 | Boulder, CO Boulder Theater (Supporting FEIST)
06.24 | Seattle, WA Moore Theater (Supporting FEIST)
06.25 | Portland, OR TBA (Supporting FEIST)
06.27 | San Francisco, CA The Fillmore (Supporting FEIST)
06.29 | Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern (Supporting FEIST)
06.30 | Solana Beach, CA Belly Up (Supporting FEIST)
07.07 | Roskilde, Denmark Roskilde Festival
07.14 | Chicago, IL Pitchfork Music Festival
07.16 | New York City, NY Summerstage (supporting The Decemberists)
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