Video: Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able (BAM 2/28/09)

Dearest Ed, Daniel, Chris' Taylor & Bear: I feel guilty. I am so sorry. I, too, have fallen victim to the curse on this industry that is the leak. I've been a bad fan. It's just been so hotly anticipated by not just me, but by everyone, the entire community that aligns themselves with the term "hipster" or "scene" or some other word. I just align myself with the idea that some bands just make good music. Grizzly Bear do make great [...]

Grizzly Bear w/ the Brooklyn Philharmonic ( more by Kyle Dean Reinford ) Grizzly Bear founder Ed Droste told [ The Quietus ] that the collaboration was "one of the most challenging, exciting, exhausting but rewarding months of our lives." He added that it took a huge amount of preperation to put the event together, in part because of working practices: "So much work going into this one show! So much rehearsal as a band listening to MIDI versions of the arrangements and only a few hours we were allowed [...]

Well, that was wonderful. On Saturday night at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Final Fantasy and Grizzly Bear experimented with full sets of material accompanied by the Brooklyn Philharmonic. The results were masterful, obvs. Final Fantasy's material is inherently symphonic, so the orchestral interpretation was a natural step. For Yellow House , the reinterpretation was more of a leap, although really just as logical: that album's dynamic and harmonic richness was begging for a night like this. Last year the Times hailed Owen Pallett as the quintessential figure in the return of the one-man [...]

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