Grizzly Bear [Clear] Yellow House Warp vinyl record Bargain

2×12″ 2006 Folk/ Indie Rock LP Repressed on Clear Vinyl Celebrating 15th YEar Since Original Release
On their second album (and Warp debut), Yellow House, Grizzly Bear takes a dramatic leap forward, delivering a collection of songs that sound awe-inspiringly huge and intimate at the same time. While the album is overall more polished and focused than their debut, nowhere is this (literally) clearer than in Yellow House’s production. Though the artful lo-fi approach Grizzly Bear used on Horn of Plenty — which sounded like it was recorded on tapes that had been moldering away in musty cupboards, or gradually dissolving underwater — was extremely evocative in its own way, Yellow House’s warmth, clarity, and symphonic depth gives Grizzly Bear’s widescreen psychedelic folk-rock a timelessness that makes it seem even more dreamlike and unique. The album’s structure and songwriting are much more focused, too, even though many of the tracks hover around five to six minutes long. Instead of presenting their experiments as fragments and snippets, as th