New music review: Shields, Grizzly Bear (Warp) | Montreal Gazette

On the fourth Grizzly Bear album, Ed Droste and the rest of the Brooklyn quartet wallow in dense, overworked indie-prog songs. While the arrangements of the tracks are rarely uninteresting, the disc is really a celebration of texture rather than composition. Songs like The Hunt and What?s Wrong seem to ramble aimlessly, making it hard for the listener to concentrate, let alone appreciate. Sleeping Ute, Speak In Sounds and Sun In Your Eyes, however, are more centered and marginally more interesting for it. Still, when you toss the deeply inscrutable, highly inward-looking lyrics into the mix, Shields is really the sound of a band chasing its own tail.

Rating: ** (TWO)

Podworthy: Speak In Rounds

(Shields will be available Sept. 18. Grizzly Bear perform Sept. 23 at 8 p.m. at the Olympia, as part of the Pop Montreal festival. Unknown Mortal Orchestra is the supporting act. Tickets cost $30. Phone 514-790-1245 or go to admission.com.)

This is Yet Again, from the album:

Source: http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/09/15/new-music-review-shields-grizzly-bear-warp/

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