grizzly bear - yellow house (new album on warp)

A-Ball · Post by **A-Ball** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:10 am

I love it long time. I read what the warp newsletter said, and decided to randomly download it. and i'm very glad i did. I've listened to it like 6 times in the past couple of days.
it's like.. epic..and shit. er.. crap.. i can't think right now.

plaster · Post by **plaster** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:40 am

the review in the newsletter really caught my eye on it. cover seems quite minimal, but lovely. it went something like:

"Yellow House is finally here. Think of classic Americana, the timeless arrangements of epic Disney scores, Brian Wilson and his imaginative collaborator Van Dyke Parkes, Love's acid-baked Calfornian psychedelia, beautiful harmonies, baroque, oceanic instrumentation and subtle electronics. Songs which twist and evolve effortlessly into one of the most intricate and beautiful albums Warp has ever released.

The sublime TV on the Radio have asked them on their US tour (see Warp Live below for a full list of dates), Dntel, Soft Pink Truth and Arial Pink queued up to remix them, and the press response to the album has been astounding.

?excellent and diverse? deserves to reach an audience beyond those already seduced by? Animal Collective and Sufjan Stevens? The Times
"soars over the high bar of expectations set by Horn Of Plenty" The Guardian
?anyone can fall in love with this album.? I Guess I?m Floating
?one of the year's best records? Pitchfork"
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Head Shop

steve-o · Post by **steve-o** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:22 pm

See: Now Playing thread.

boardsofdublin · Post by **boardsofdublin** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:37 pm

have listened to it a few time. not a big fan of it really.

The Other · Post by **The Other** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:03 pm

i really dug their first lp..so i will check this one out for sure...

thedisavowed · Post by **thedisavowed** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:08 pm

WHATEVER!!! IT DERSERVES LIKE SIXTY TOPICS!

No really, I just listened to this for the second time front to back (this time on my AKG K240s) and it really is a gem of an album. Naysayers need to give this another try. Best release of '06 so far, imho.

CHECK OUT THEIR FIRST ONE TOO, ESP "Deep Sea Diver."

ExitEuXa · Post by **ExitEuXa** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:52 pm

Grizzly Bear_Yellow House is one of the best Warp releases so far this year.

joshkowski · Post by **joshkowski** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:09 pm

I definitely agree.

thedisavowed · Post by **thedisavowed** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:40 pm

ExitEuXa wrote:Grizzly Bear_Yellow House is one of the best Warp releases so far this year.

And SO MUCH MORE.

Derail · Post by **Derail** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:42 pm

Ok, can someone give me the basic feel/style of this album? From what I rember reading about Grizzly Bear, it's rock oriented right?

thedisavowed · Post by **thedisavowed** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:47 pm

Grizzly Bear is like:

Modest Mouse meets the Beach Boys meets Tindersticks meets Radiohead meets David Axelrod (a little, maybe?) meets something very delicate and unique wrapped up in an indie rock package with nice photography and atmosphere.

You need to just listen to the whole thing. With headphones.

Edit: I don't want to set cosmic expectations for this as I don't want you to be dissapointed or anything (maybe it's too late), but it really is great.

The Other · Post by **The Other** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:35 pm

havent heard their new one yet...but i am sure it is stunning...i have their last LP on vinyl and love it...

deep sea diver is an instant classic...

there is flutters of electronics with acoustic melodies...reverberated vocals and lovely lyrics...

ExitEuXa · Post by **ExitEuXa** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:25 pm

The Other wrote:havent heard their new one yet...but i am sure it is stunning...i have their last LP on vinyl and love it...

deep sea diver is an instant classic...

there is flutters of electronics with acoustic melodies...reverberated vocals and lovely lyrics...

Here you have a short bio.

Grizzly Bear began as a home recording project for Boston-bred experimentalist Edward Droste, the son of an elementary school teacher, who laid the groundwork for the band's otherworldly debut album on a small hand-held tape recorder while holed up for 15 months in his Greenpoint, Brooklyn, apartment. His homespun D.I.Y. effort took on new life with the help of multi-instrumentalist Christopher Bear, a Chicago native who had worked in a diverse range of musical projects ranging from laptop electronica to free jazz, who added additional instrumentation and vocals to Droste's stripped-down sonic blueprints.

The resulting album, Horn of Plenty -- a pet project originally meant only for Droste's friends -- eventually circulated through New York's underground music scene, with its unique blend of acoustic instruments, layered vocals, and found sounds earning comparisons to alt-rock heavy-hitters such as Sigur Rós, Sufjan Stevens, and Animal Collective. Originally released to little fanfare in 2004, the album gained momentum thanks to copious touring, with Chris Taylor joining the band on reeds and electronics, and Daniel Rossen providing additional guitar and vocals. It was reissued in 2005 as a two-CD set featuring remixes by Dntel (of the Postal Service), Final Fantasy, Solex, and the Soft Pink Truth (aka Drew Daniel of Matmos). An album of Droste's early demo recordings, Sorry for the Delay, was released in 2006 as the band finished up recording Yellow House, their second proper full-length album. ~ Bret Love, All Music Guide
Written by Bret Love

The Other · Post by **The Other** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:28 pm

^ yeah what he said... :wink:

thedisavowed · Post by **thedisavowed** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:43 pm

Hey D4, have you heard "Sorry for the Delay"?

steve-o · Post by **steve-o** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:24 pm

thedisavowed wrote:Hey D4, have you heard "Sorry for the Delay"?

I have it and I like it alot. Some good tunes. I think I might like it better than Deep Sea Diver.
Not to get too technical, but i'd drop the Beach Boys influence and insert Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks.

ExitEuXa · Post by **ExitEuXa** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:02 pm

thedisavowed wrote:Hey D4, have you heard "Sorry for the Delay"?

No it doesn't ring a bell

thedisavowed · Post by **thedisavowed** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:39 pm

It's that collection of early recordings you posted in that quote earlier in this thread.

It wasn't on amazon last I looked.

ExitEuXa · Post by **ExitEuXa** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:06 pm

thedisavowed wrote:It's that collection of early recordings you posted in that quote earlier in this thread.

It wasn't on amazon last I looked.

So it is.

ExitEuXa · Post by **ExitEuXa** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:48 am

Review from Other Music>15/09/06.

GRIZZLY BEAR
Yellow House
(Warp)
"Easier"

"Central and Remote"

While we were way into Horn of Plenty , the lonesome lo-fi debut from Edward Droste's bedroom recording project, Grizzly Bear, it was always tempered by the fact that upon release of said music, the band had already become a four-person entity, their sound naturally expanded into something far different from their roots. But who knew what the next record would sound like? And after it was announced that it would be released by Warp, that venerable electronic imprint, our heads were getting scratched double-time.
Suffice to say that now there's no scalp to scratch, as Yellow House has completely blown our minds. We knew the group had an attuned ear for group harmonies and discreet, devastating embellishment, but this is a quantum leap forward in all aspects, a type of studio maturity and songwriting acumen we really were not expecting so soon from this Brooklyn quartet. Their first disc brought comparisons to Sufjan Stevens and Animal Collective, but while we cannot for the life of us hear that sterile, overwrought cleverness so infused in the former, Yellow House displays the same type of emotive power and sonic sureness as the latter's Feels album. Add to it a broad acoustic dynamic that evokes someone like Van Dyke Parks' earliest works as well as the sonic subterfuge that This Heat was capable of (think of their slower, more dour moments) and you have an idea of what Grizzly Bear is up to at present. Not just one of the year's biggest surprises, simply one of 2006's best. Highly recommended. [AB]