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BAND CRUSH: GRIZZLY BEAR
Tequila shots with Jay-Z and Beyonce? It's been a wild year for this Brooklyn group.
Some call Grizzly Bear our generation's Beach Boys: killer harmonizers whose every ahh-ahh captures all the thrills and pain of being a young dreamer. But they're also far too modern for that label: With multilayered electronics that have inspired orchestras to back their live shows and a pop sensibility that's always melting into the avant-garde, the group's latest album, Veckatimest, captures the sound of a band forever teetering on the brink of what's next.
"This year, we've been backed by the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and we performed with the Brooklyn Youth Choir and with the London Symphony Orchestra," says singer/multi-instrumentalist Ed Droste. "When you collaborate with people like that, you're always learning how to make your own songs sound new again."
That sense of innovation has led Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood to call Grizzly Bear his favorite group and Trent Reznor to admit that he considered his own music "irrelevant" compared to theirs. "All the attention has been a bit surreal," Droste admits. "Jay-Z and Beyonce came to our show in Brooklyn, and [later] bought us tequila shots! That definitely added an extra twist of wildness to 2009."
MELISSA MAERZ
Download "Cheerleader" by Grizzly Bear at nylonmag.com/itunes
"This year, we've been backed by the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and we performed with the Brooklyn Youth Choir and with the London Symphony Orchestra," says singer/multi-instrumentalist Ed Droste. "When you collaborate with people like that, you're always learning how to make your own songs sound new again."
That sense of innovation has led Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood to call Grizzly Bear his favorite group and Trent Reznor to admit that he considered his own music "irrelevant" compared to theirs. "All the attention has been a bit surreal," Droste admits. "Jay-Z and Beyonce came to our show in Brooklyn, and [later] bought us tequila shots! That definitely added an extra twist of wildness to 2009."
MELISSA MAERZ
Download "Cheerleader" by Grizzly Bear at nylonmag.com/itunes
This story was published on December 18, 2009.
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Meghan
12/18/2009
oh how i just love grizzly bear<3
sarah
12/18/2009
loveeeeee them!
Jandie
12/18/2009
I loooove this band. <3 Can't get enough of them!
Heather
12/19/2009
I love Grizzly bears too!
megan
12/20/2009
Heather- it's Grizzly Bear, not Bears. You're an idiot. This band blew up about eight months ago so this article's a bit late.
Abbi
12/21/2009
Yeah the article's definately late. I saw them last spring and thought it was cool there were both 80 year olds, and a few children as well. But if you read this and looked them up, then fell in love, well it's a good thing you have an alright taste in music, but stop being a follower.
sarah
12/21/2009
When I listen to Grizzly Bear it's like falling in love. No other band has made me feel that way.
REID
12/23/2009
How is it following to learn about a band you've never heard of before and listen to them? Are you implying that the only fans of Grizzly Bear who aren't followers are the ones who knew about them the instant they released a CD or whatever? Obviously you must have heard of the band from someone or seen an ad. So going by your logic you're a follower too.
lolabear
12/24/2009
I agree reid just b/c u hear a band by not follwing their work for month's. By the way, their success 1st came with yellow house which came out years ago. And megan or what ever they did an article on them waaay before now maybe you and your friend should look it up i see how much you two love research and correcting people.
SARIITA
12/26/2009
heather.! chill the fuk out.
<33 grizzly BEAR..loov
Liv
02/08/2010
Does anyone know who the photograph was by when this appeared in the Magazine ?
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