Grizzly Bear

[DesertStarscape]

Best band of '06?

[ж]

i thought yellow house or whatever was gonna blow up to sung tongs-like proportions, but there hasn't been a lot of hype, has there? i still haven't heard the thing...

[jaimi]

Bowling Stoned has a big article about them in the issue with Jon Stewart and Stephen Col-bear on the cover. Haven't heard it either, although my dad (he stays more current with new music than I do!) bought their last album and thought it was crap.

[David_R._Gross]

Originally posted by DesertStarscape
Best band of '06?

I don't know if I would go best band in '06 (I think AHAAH gets that.....) but they certainly need to be discussed in that realm.

It's funny, because I didn't know anything about them a month and a half ago. Then a friend of mine asked if I wanted to go to a TV on the Radio show here in Chicago. Obviously Grizzle was opening. I checked out both bands and liked what I heard. I finally made the decision to go, but the show was sold out days before the event. I went regardless and got a ticket right before they went on (45 min. of bumming around first. Never been held from a sold out show BTW......about 10 times with ending success.)

I was amazed at their performance. I heard all the instruments even at the moderate volume they were playing (The Metro is notorious for drowning out shows with too much bass.) Grate melody lines delivered with hypnotic tempos, can't beat it. You can still stream "Yellow House" ****Here****. (http://www.grizzly-bear.net/audio/) I think "Plans" sounds like Circulatory System a little....perhaps The Instruments even. Either way Grizzly Bear and Yellow House are worth listening to.




Fare Thee Well,

DRG

[Plastic_hero]

I like Yellow House, but I don't think it's diverse enough. Many tracks just blend into each other. It's certainly not nearly as good as Sung Tongs. I think I even prefer Beach House over them.

[willyum]

i too am a big fan of yellow house. i don't think it directly compares to sung tongs all that much though, i'd give it more of a califone/brian wilson nod. anyway, tracks 5 and 6 on yellow house rock my world.

[DesertStarscape]

Yellow House is Sung Tongs taken to a more conventional route...but it retains much of that magic, and compounds more instrumentation instead of relying completely on vocal sounds.

I think Grizzly Bear uses dynamics a little better too.

Both are amazing, but much, much different.


I've been meaning to check out Califone. How do they compare?

[willyum]

i love califone. they're much more about texture and just washing big collections of sonic gushyness over your face though. i guess the direct "genre" would be folk-tronica. check out Herron King Blues and Roots & Crowns

[Fwching]

I love them a lot, but then again I have a bias because I saw them around when they released Horn of Plenty in this really great, intimate show.

This meaning, I would have eaten Yellow House up whether or not it had been that good.

[Edited on 11-13-0606 by Fwching]

[channelfan]

although i have yet to form a solid opinion on grizzly bear, i can tell you this, golden bear is my favorite 'bear' band of '06

[Xylemicarious]

Man, Grizzly Bear is one awesome band. I've been really into them lately. I wouldn't ever compare them to Animal Collective; Grizzly Bear is so much more easy to listen to that I would barely consider hem the same type of music. Not that I don't like Animal Collective, I do. But jsut because they're both experimental pop doesn't mean that they sound anything alike.