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| 4.5 superb | Ryan Flatley EMERITUS | April 16th 08 |
Somewhere within the home recordings of Grizzly Bear lurks an untouched comfort zone. Enter Grizzly Bear's latest release, Yellow House, which is a complex, cohesive, and cozy lo-fi indie-rock album. With haunting vocal harmonies paving the way, acoustic and electric guitars meticulously create a challenging, jaw-dropping record. Songs like "The Knife" and "On a Neck, On a Split" are prime examples of Grizzly Bear's unique style, which is something so dark, yet so beautiful. This is an album to remember for a long, long time.
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| 4.5 superb | chtrenne | September 19th 12 |
Atmospheric, baroque perfection. Definitely an album that must be played BEGINNING to END... no skipping... no starting at the best song... just playing.
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| 4.5 superb | Scott Smith | March 26th 10 |
So i'm going backwards in with grizzly bear, but good god yellow house is great....tis just bliss
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| 4.5 superb | AggravatedYeti | June 30th 08 |
It takes no less than the first minute of 'Yellow House' to see that Grizzly Bear have stripped themselves down from their 'recorded in a submarine' sound to something more palpable, but no less expansive, cavernous and beautiful.
Said minute, which belongs to the opener 'Easier' is nothing other than gorgeous, a few chords and piano chimes fade into a nice acoustic/hummed rhythm. Then the 40th second hits, and 'Easier' opens wide into an expansive, glorious tunnel of sound. The song continues, it's a flood of folky-spacey pop accompanied by any number of guitars, drums, pianos, banjos, synth boards -- it's pretty amazing. 'Easier' is a standout (along with 'Knife', 'On a Neck, On a Spit', 'Little Brother' and 'Colorado'), and it would be easy to judge the rest of the album based on this track, but it would be a waste. Grizzly Bear transcend the usual freak-folk, star-pop and indie-rock cliches and build, an immediate, yet reserved -- expansive, yet focused, beautiful but albeit disjointed masterpiece with 'Yellow House'.
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| 4.0 excellent | jeremologyy | July 9th 07 |
I don't usually enjoy albums like this. Extremely brief, could-be-more writing, and tons and tons and tons of instrumental. I like that maybe on a track or two, or an entirely instrumental album with no words, or a regular album of words and instrumental.
But there's something about this tapestry that captures me. I can't even be sure of what it is, but whatever it is, it's truly compelling.
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| 4.0 excellent | Jeremy F STAFF | December 15th 06 |
At first listen, "Yellow House" is almost inaccessible. A dizzying maze of song structures and moods, it sounds as if Pink Floyd and My Morning Jacket combined and decided to go Indie. But if you can get past the initial audio barrage, you'll find a gem of an album filled with fantastic moments. The dazzlingly beautiful outro on 'Knife', the acoustic breakdown on 'On A Neck, On A Spit' and the climbing choruses on 'Lullabye' show that Grizzly Bear know exactly what they are doing. Highly recommended.
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| 5.0 classic | MyFavoriteBand | November 12th 06 |
I LOVE this cd and I am wondering why no one on here has comment it yet! All though it does have the tendency to make me a little sleppy sometimes. I will write a better review tommarow but I dont think anyone will notice because there is like no one on this page
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| 4.0 excellent | Conrad Tao EMERITUS | October 28th 10 |
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