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Friday, February 18. The French Kicks. 18+. 9 P.M. TT the Bear??s Place, 10 Brookline St. $10. Tickets available through Ticketmaster...
Friday, February 18. The French Kicks. 18+. 9 P.M. TT the Bear??s Place, 10 Brookline St. $10. Tickets through Ticketmaster or at TT?...
...more thorough listen to the production on this album quickly banishes the need for any comparisons. The tape is saturated with a woozy, beautiful wall of sound—lo-fi, to be sure—that’s all Grizzly Bear??s own. “There’s a lot of sort of hissing and background noise [on Horn of Plenty] sort of just because I wasn’t pro at it,” Droste says. “I ended up just sort of keeping it.” The album...
...though, it's not quite freaky enough for “freak-folk.” For all his weirdness, Droste's instincts as a songwriter are a little too pop for the self-consciously offbeat genre/catchphrase every critic seemed to swoon over this past year. Just when Grizzly Bear??s aural molasses threatens to overwhelm, an endearingly lively instrumental break or jaunty Britpop bassline interrupts their hibernation dreams. “Fix It,” in particular, flirts with major keys at a non-somnolent pace, suggesting what these guys could do with a real studio...
When they hit the stage of the Middle East Upstairs last Tuesday, Grizzly Bear??s indie promise loomed larger than ever, with untested psych-glammy numbers joining newly-rocking arrangements of songs from the album. Opener “Deep Sea Diver” was a case in point. After a minute or two of meandering keyboards and “Long, Long, Long” moans, the drummer started pounding, walls of feedback kicked in, and—are those power chords I hear? By show’s end, Droste and co. had brought...