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...Paris' highest court last week, Mitterrand came off as a paranoid liar. Since last November, 12 former officials and police officers have been on trial, accused of wiretapping at least 150 people during the initial years of his presidency. The court showed a tape filmed by two Belgian television journalists who interviewed the President in March 1993. The interview was essentially over as soon as they asked about the boiling scandal over the wiretapping. "The Elysée listens to nothing," Mitterrand said before excoriating the journalists. "I didn't think one would stoop to such a vile level. Merci...
...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...
...quite-DIY producer’s best friend. “I’ll 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...
...kicked in, and—are those power chords I hear? By show’s end, Droste and co. had brought out an oboe, a recorder, a flute, a xylophone and an autoharp—enough instruments for a ramshackle, Olivia Tremor Control-style psych orchestra, without the tape noise that covered the album...
...they do make it big, Droste is adamant that Grizzly Bear doesn’t want money to dress up their sound in an expensive studio. He does expect to have less tape hiss in future Grizzly Bear recordings, but only for reasons of artistic integrity. “That was a technique I used on the first album,” he says. “That was a chance thing then so it seemed sincere to me…if I did it now it would just seem like I was imitating myself...