So much more than just a collection of tracks from the cutting room floor, FRIEND serves as a scrapbook of the band’s journey over the past year. Friends they’ve made on the road (CSS, Band of Horses and Atlas Sound) cover their favorite Grizzly Bear tunes, and the band finally commit to tape many of the live favorites that have awed audiences around the world.
Originally released in 2004, Horn of Plenty, this time around featuring tons of great bonus remixes from
the likes of Efterklang, Dntel, The Soft Pink Truth, Simon Bookish, Phiiliip, and Final Fantasy.
Best New Music
8.5 / 10
"That an EP of this nature would showcase such an extraordinary leap forward in conviction and virtuosity is practically unheard of-- after all, these things are typically treated as commercial dustbins for outtakes and leftover scraps. But Grizzly Bear is a different beast, and in putting the same care and devotion into this project as they would any other, they've shown that the title applies not just to their musical allies, but to their fans as well."
"With their larger-than-life harmony chorales and meticulous transitions, Grizzly Bear's songs are already cinematic. That makes the 'Friend' EP (Warp) something like extras on a director's-cut DVD."
Beyond production, Grizzly Bear have stepped up their songwriting in every way, assembling melodies that proceed in a logical fashion but never sound overused or overly familiar. Yellow House is a much better record than we could rightfully have expected from these guys, better, even, than we could have imagined them making . . . [O]ne of the year's best records.
"...awe-inspiringly huge and intimate at the same time... Yellow House is a beautiful album in its own right,
and required listening not just for fans of Horn of Plenty, but for anyone who enjoys ambitious, creative music with an emotional
undercurrent."
I platonically love those LOMO shots...I platonically love it when two beautiful things come together...Grizzly Bear/Lomography...arrr...so much beauty it is almost blinding. I just took a gazillion holga shots with expired film at Coney Island, I am sure that excites you tremendously.
you got me snapping my fingers and clapping my hands... 'do you feel for me the way I feel for you?' I swear I was Chaka Khan for halloween when I was 6
Originally released in 2004, Horn of Plenty, this time around featuring tons of great bonus remixes from
the likes of Efterklang, Dntel, The Soft Pink Truth, Simon Bookish, Phiiliip, and Final Fantasy.
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