The fluttering opener "Southern Point" takes off and circles back like a flock of birds, as inviting as Yellow House's "Easier" and a whole lot more to the point. Get thee to a buying place.) Highlights, all, but there's more where that came from. If that's you, listen good: that windtunnel 128k leak you nabbed that fateful night back in March? That is not Veckatimest. (In fact, I'm painfully aware you may just be intimately familiar with the whole damn thing. By now, many of you should be familiar with the stunning bounce of "Two Weeks", the skyward swoon of teen creeper "Cheerleader", and the surefooted shuffle of "While You Wait for the Others". In Veckatimest, one sees the fruit of that variegated labor as well between records, these dudes have been busy getting better at all the things they do, and as it turns out, Veckatimest manages to do Yellow House at least a few better on nearly every metric.įirst, the songs. That said, we've had no shortage of Grizzly Bear- related music: Dan Rossen's recently resuscitated Department of Eagles made a pretty great record last year, Chris Taylor's done some stellar production work with Dirty Projectors and Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, and the band proper have lined up onstage collaborations with high-minded sorts like Nico Muhly and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. That sound characterized a few of the better tunes on 2006's Yellow House- and a fair bit of what little Grizzly Bear has released since. For every inspired moment on Friend, there was another that fell back on the tried-but-true: a quiet intro bleeding into a big, harmonic midsection followed by an eventual denouement. What's perhaps the most remarkable thing about the truly remarkable Veckatimest, however, is how very exciting much of it is no small feat for a painstaking chamber-pop record that never once veers above the middle tempo.Ģ007's Friend EP had me worried that Grizzly Bear's insistence on having everything in its right place had forced formula onto what had seemed to that point freewheeling and free-associative. Perfection- and the pursuit thereof- has its price, and in less able hands (with all love to Axl), this obsessive attention to craft and execution could lead to something dull. More than most any album in recent memory not named Chinese Democracy (please keep reading), it is compositionally and sonically airtight, every moment sounding tweaked, labored over. It does not store any personal data.Veckatimest ain't perfect lord knows it tries. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
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