Live Review: Grizzly Bear
It’s really like night and day, to be completely honest,” says chief Grizzly Bear Ed Droste, big sad dark eyes looking a little bewildered as he takes it all in in the hotel bar. It’s Thursday, so this must be Norway: beginning their...
Album review: Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Classifying Grizzly Bear alongside American folksters Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver is a common error – it’s like comparing the real-life Ursus arctos horribilis (that’s grizzly bear to you) with a runty park squirrel. In the years since Ed...
Grizzly Bear
There’s a danger with lending your songs to other people – they might play them better – but NY’s experimental wizards have done just that. CSS’ ‘Knife’ and Band Of Horses’ ‘Plans’ both introduce a certain edge, while the...
Grizzly Bear
Not to be confused with Panda Bear of fellow brain-trippers Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear take a more measured route to freaky songcraft. ‘Knife’ splashes deep into the watery depths, sounding not unlike a cornucopia of lazy sea creatures...
