This new Grizzly Bear is really something. It doesn't really have an instantly accessible song as some previous tracks like "Two Weeks" but the more you listen to it and soak it in, the more it reveals itself as a masterpiece.
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Yes. At first, "Sleeping Ute" was my favorite track but then "Yet Again" became my next favorite song. Now I like almost every song on the album as much as those first two. Of course, it helps to hear those songs performed live but still on repeated listens of "Shields", you are right in that each song reveals itself on repeated listens. Especially songs like "A Simple Answer", "Sun In Your Eyes", and "Half Gate". The last one in particular is beyond words.
Thelonius Monk - Monk's Mood This album culminates in this awesome and complex track. Perfect for escaping into your mind after an usually taxing week.
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You missed my Friday humor. I have been listening to At The Drive-In this evening. A couple of my favorite songs are: 198d Napoleon Solo Initiation Quarantined For Now.. We Toast
i was actually talking about their music, but let me elaborate. grizzly bear creates a sonic landscape that is vague rather than abstract. i read in pitchfork or somewhere it's "foreground" music. background, foreground, same diference to me. where is this ground, in an opium den? of course not because those guys have never been in one. who exactly is this guy crying to or about? where are they? the music is so indirect that whatever musical chops they are trying to show off add up to nothing. the most important aspect of popular music is songwriting. everything else is in service to the central idea of each song. these "awesome" layers and textures don't mean a damn thing. it so unorganic and arranged that i might well be listening to bad chamber music. do you like bad chamber music? i sure the **** don't. i don't mind someone whining and moaning if there is some real urgency to it. try listening to perfume genius's new album right after the grizzly bear one. it is spare, simple, urgent and powerful. he's this tiny little gay guy from seattle sharing some pain with his giant heart.
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OK gary, I'll bite... I've often wished this thread had more real discussion, but I can understand how it has come that it does not. Over time, (it seems) contributors have simply decided it was worth while to respect others musical preferences no matter how much they may sting or make them want to throw-up. It is because of this that I suspect a more 'in-the-know' (in regards to Grizzly Bear) member may not care. For what it's worth.... I'm really liking this Perfume Genius you compare Grizzly Bear against. I was admittedly unaware, but have spent the past couple hours listening to the recent 'Put Your Back N 2 It" release and some other things of his and am won over... I hope I do not listen to this a year later and regret having said so, but besides the obvious Morrissey comparison there is an even darker echo of Big Stars', Sisters Lover's period which is most appealing; but that is probably selling Perfume Genius short as at first blush it stands alone and unique. What I don't get is what all this has to do with Grizzly Bear - I don't buy the whole unorganic, foreground, background thing... True, most Grizzly Bear songs are drenched in reverb and echo, but if you listen close it's just the basics with some sweet harmonies and not much trickery. The song 'Yet Again' from their recent release is a perfect example of a top-notch pop song with a hook that kills... I'm pretty sure I hate background (err, ambient) music and this ain't that. I would suggest that Grizzly Bear is no more/no less a brilliant product of the musical cycle ("Beach Boys on Nyquill" - not my quote) than Perfume Genius is and I'm glad both are with us.
win, i have listened to grizzly bear a LOT and am listening to the new one now as i write this. if i close my eyes i can picture dudes in tights performing a musical, and i hate musicals. maybe they are too baroque for me. i don't know what they are selling but i'm not buying it, simple as that. i compared it to perfume genius because it's on the heavy rotation list and because it achieves greater, depth, beauty, and power with much less fuss. (if i want a bunch of stuff going on i like the dirty projectors, they at least put some balls behind their music.) anyway, glad i could introduce to some devastatingly good music. i don't know where he goes from here. he doesn't sound like him but he kinda reminds me of elliott smith, except i detect an optimism that elliott never had. so hard to predict these things. but i don't worry about it, i have a new greatest song or album of all time every other day. if it moves me, i go with it, i am hopelessly doomed to chase my soul around.
