Grizzly Bear - Friend - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

There is an unbelievable clarity of sound and vision to VECKATIMEST vocals (a duty shared by all band members) are sharper and more complex, arrangements are tighter, production is more venturous and lyrics more affecting. Having opened the creative dialogue at such an early stage, Grizzly Bear was able to realize these 12 songs together as a band, making it their most collaboratively compositional album to date.

Out-of-print in the US. Spin (9/95, pp.112-113) - 6 - Reasonably Good - '... wallows in a deep, bass-driven earthy blues that's on a continuum with John Lee Hooker, dub reggae, and Miles Davis' early '70s electric period. Kyuss' preferred method of assault is a slow-motion blizzard of sound, like thrash slowed down to 16 rpm... ' Q (8/95, p.124) - 3 Stars - Good - '... part grunge rumble, part Mick Ronson salvo circa Spiders of Mars....John Garcia's vocals wail convincingly but it's Josh Homme's fluid guitar that strays into everything from glam to thrash, with a touch of melody lulling the impartial listener into a false sense of semi-comfort... ' NME (7/15/95, p.46) - 8 (out of 10) '... The thinking mammoth's metal muthas....Kyuss' riffs are supremely obese, like the bowels of Black Sabbath after six vindaloos and no rice, and only Monster Magnet can really compare on that level... '

Grizzly Bear returns with SHIELDS, the follow-up to VECKATIMEST. The album includes the new single InchYet AgainInch.