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Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (hear “Cheerleader”)
Grizzly Bear has taken a real step here towards mainstreaming an esthetic fairly well laid out by Robert Wyatt. This is an album that will probably turn up on the sound system at Starbucks at some point, but plenty of it is coming out of a tradition of pretty droney, spooked, playfully odd music. It’s bittersweet to behold, like a child growing up.
The place where this surpasses Animal Collective’s recent effort is in its sonics, its rhythmic stability, its production values in general. The A.C. has songs, though, which this album does not.
6 months ago
