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Droste has a point: the tempo rarely rises above sleepy on Horn of Plenty. That said, the acoustic riffs circling around Droste’s slurred harmonies and minor-key melodies are easy enough to pigeonhole, weaving a fuzzily familiar cocoon as the songs’ structures wobble and repeat...
...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 was recorded, after all, in Droste’s small bedroom?...
...find weird things in my room to make a noise with,” Droste explains. Songs that began years ago as minimal guitar noodles or melodic whispers into the cheap hand-held tape recorder that he carries have been fleshed out into full-on psychedelic mantras on Horn of Plenty...
Grizzly Bear began as a post-college hobby for Droste, until his friends talked him into shopping a demo to independent labels. Now Horn of Plenty is building buzz, and simplistic though they may be, all those pesky comparisons to indie flavors of the month can't hurt when it comes to getting signed somewhere bigger. In the meantime, the band (enlarged to four members) just embarked on a 27-date tour, featuring some rather caffeinated modifications to their style...
According to Rivera, the engineer of the commuter rail that struck the students told T police that he saw the students when they were only 50 feet in front of him and was not able to honk the horn or hit the brakes in time—the train would have required approximately a half a mile to be able to stop...