The album is a diaristic account of the way in which the artistic process can help one move through emotional blocks.
Grizzly Bear’s Painted Ruins explores the inner conflict experienced when our best-laid plans fall apart.
“Faster Than the Devil,” featuring Marissa Nadler, mines the same influences as Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan.
Grizzly Bear, Wilco, Of Monsters and Men, ZZ Top, & the Fouls.
Shields plays like a calculated retreat into something altogether indistinct and inconsequential.
Grizzly Bear has finally emerged to bring us the first cut off Veckatimest’s long-awaited and still nameless follow-up.
Xavier Beauvois’s Of Gods and Men is, no more and no less, a handsomely mounted French prestige picture.
The album’s musical skeleton is a patchwork that borrows from the influence of folk torchbearers past and present.