Grizzly Bear
 

The band. Does anybody have their album Yellow House? Is it good?

Augh! They're coming to Ottawa soon and my friends keep telling me that they'd kill me if I don't go. I really want to hear them

Ive got Yellow House! one of my favourites from last year, if you like Animal Collective you would most probably enjoy them.
I saw them last year , they put on a good live show.

I downloaded one track, On a Neck, On a Spit, from iTunes and it's OK.

If you can download 'Knife'. thats a good track. well i like it anyway

Allrighty, will do. Looks like JB linked to the entire album.

Inhuman thinks James Brown is a fucking savior. Inhuman's been putting up with his classmate's terrible Limp Bizket album lately, and some Grizzly Bear would be nice

I saw them open for TVOTR and enjoyed them but i feel they almost rip off AC's earlier material too much.

"Making variations on a theme is really the crux of creativity" - Douglas R. Hofstadter

i like them, but I wouldn't say that their album was one of the best of the year. i'm still debating whether to see them in ottawa. in my opinion Knife is the best song, and if you don't like it then you probably would not like the album. there's also a cool Girl Talk remix of Knife, which can be found on Pitchfork

it's a pretty dang good album. they're actually playing here in march and my band was supposed to get the opening spot for some garbage indie pop band.

indie-politics are the breaks, i say.

Warp goodness. I like them.
Here are the upcoming dates. I wouldn't miss them.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2007

FEBRUARY
01 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brendas*
02 Boston, MA - Museum Of Fine Arts*
03 Northampton, MA - Iron Horse*
04 Montreal, Quebec - Main Hall*
05 Ottawa, Ontario - Barrymore's Music Hall
06 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace *
08 Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig *#
09 Chicago, IL - Subterranean *
10 Minneapolis, MN - 7th St. Entry *
11 Iowa City, IA - The Picador *
13 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
14 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
16 Seattle, WA - Neumos ^
17 Vancouver, British Columbia - Plaza Club ^
18 Portland, OR - Mission Theatre ^
20 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall ^
21 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour ^
23 Tucson, AZ - Plush ^
24 Marfa, TX - Ballroom Marfa ^
26 Norman, OK - Opolis ^
27 Dallas, TX - Club Dada ^
28 Austin, TX - Emo's Jr. ^

MARCH
01 Baton Rouge, LA - Chelsea 's Cafe ^
02 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn ^
03 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 ^
04 Washington, DC - Black Cat ^
06 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^

* with Dirty Projectors
# with Akron Family
^ with Papercuts

05 Ottawa, Ontario - Barrymore's Music Hall

Dammit! barrymore's is 19+. I hate Ontario.

I'm going to have to say I don't think they they rip off Animal Collective. I can't say their aren't similarities, but those probably have more to do with earlier influences they both have. I think they remind me of Brian Wilson smile and nice "Obscured by clouds" era Floyd. Their first album is catchier although maybe not as creative. I like them both. There was also a live bbc mp3 on pitchfork I really, really liked under the news section a few weeks back.

Understandable. Of course, I did walk into the show while they were playing a song with a similar instrument as AC on "Bees".

you're talking about the autoharp and it's actually pretty common. a friend of mine's mom used to play it in a folk band back in the day.

anyone heard the girl talk remix/mashup of "knife" and clipse's "wamp wamp (what it do)"?

it's that fire, son.

it is amazing.

i've changed my mind. over the past month, i've really gotten into yellow house.