Grizzly Bear: Yellow House

CML call number: CD ROCK Grizzly
Jon Pareles wrote in the New York Times: "[T]he music alone created a psychedelic haze when Grizzly Bear, Beach House and the Papercuts performed at the Bowery Ballroom on Wednesday night. Harking back to the 1960s, with some technological upgrades, all three bands prize songs as reveries: havens of slow-motion drone and drift. For Grizzly Bear that drift can lead in countless unforeseen directions: from folky picking to rippling vocal harmonies to imposing instrumental anthems. The band has two guitarists and songwriters: Edward Droste, who started the group with the drummer Christopher Bear, and Daniel Rossen, who joined it for its superb 2006 album, 'Yellow House.' … Grizzly Bear's songs usually have sparse lyrics and long instrumental episodes, but there's hardly any jamming; it's not that kind of psychedelic band. Each song follows its own predetermined and winding path, from oblique introspection to lush chorale to twinkly interludes and brawny guitar chords, not necessarily in that order. Grizzly Bear's songs usually take their time, rambling wherever they want in fascinating itineraries" ("Three Bands on Trips …," 3/9/07).