The incredible Grizzly Bear from Brooklyn can be found plying their trade on the hugely credible Warp Records. Daniel Rosse, Ed Droste, Chris Taylor and Christopher Bear make up this remarkable quartet employing clarinet, drums, guitar and other traditional as well as electronic instruments to create their special sound. Described as many things including anti folk, indie and lo fi, whether all these things and more they are certainly genre defining.

Horn of Plenty the Grizzly Bear debut album of 2004 is largely a solo effort from Droste. It™s recording predates the band and was described as possessing an atmospheric power and being more than enough to hypnotize by Rolling stone magazine.

Yellow House places Grizzly Bear at the forefront of modern song writing. Droste™s moms Yellow House, off Cape Cod was the scene of a thrown together studio where tucked away from the world outside a songcraft was undertaken. The meticulous nature of the process speaks volumes for the perfection to which the band stride. Not a perfection born of rigid instruction but of careful embellishments and a simple ease. An ability to take a plethora of sounds and to subtly overlay voices, with amongst many other sounds the simple tones of a piano, creating haunting gentle motifs that are threaded all through Yellow House.

Grizzly Bears songs are songs to feel , to listen and to hold.

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."

Ryan Schreiber, Pitchfork Media

"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."

John Pareles, New York Times

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.

” Pitchfork [Best New Music]

Number 5 Album of the Year

New York Times

"...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."

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