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Jul 9, 2012 · What’s most remarkable about Shields is not so much that Grizzly Bear have gotten more comfortable with ratcheting up the intensity, but rather that they’ve arrived upon a sound that’s louder and fuzzier while maintaining a uniquely ornate beauty.
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Sep 17, 2012 · Shields is Grizzly Bear's most compositionally adventurous record. Though full of baroque, detail-rich production and latticework melodies, it also offers an emotionally resonant core.
- Lindsay Zoladz
Sep 19, 2012 · The honest answer is no, they’re not. Whether you’re listening to the psychedelic choral wail of Yellow House ‘s ‘Colorado’, their role reversal cover of the Crystals ‘He Hit Me’ or the piano stop and start of Veckatimist ‘s ‘Two Weeks’, Grizzly Bear have long stood out as an American oddity.
Sep 16, 2022 · It really was a triumph. Shields remains my favorite Grizzly Bear album, in part because of how often it makes those knotty passages and heady textures feel like rock ‘n’ roll. The...
- Chris Deville
Sep 13, 2012 · Instead it has a rougher, more alive, less produced sound. “I think it’s our strongest album yet. And our most mature one. When I look back at Veckatimest I think there are a couple of songs that...
Sep 16, 2012 · Reviews of Shields by Grizzly Bear, The Brooklyn experimental indie rock quartet follow up 2009's widely-acclaimed Veckatimest with album No.4 Any decent music? We review the reviews.
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