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- Artist: Grizzly Bear
- Album: Horn of Plenty
- Label: Kanine
- Year of Release: 2004
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- Reviewed by: dscanland on 2005-11-10
RecommendThere is a reason that Horn Of Plenty was missed last year and that is because it is understated. Horn of Plenty is a quiet album that is very unassuming and presumptuous that the listener doesn't need much to hold onto. And so begins the saga of Grizzly Bear, a Brooklyn band that released one of last years unsung albums. This band is the birth of Edwin Droste's ideas and musical sketches, which morphed into Horn Of Plenty with the help of one Christopher Bear. The music may or may not get lumped into the psych folk category but Grizzly Bear deserves credit because of it's beauty. Simple and yet beautiful songs such as "Don't Ask" or later on "Eavesdropping". The songs are very simple and very quiet quite often lacking percussion other than the strumming or picking of a guitar. I missed this album, make sure you don't.
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on 2010-02-06 Zakerias Said:
GRIZZLY BEAR - HORN OF PLENTY
At a first glance, "Horn of Plenty" seems to be made up of crisp acoustic guitars, with the right amount of ambiance behind them, dissonant vocal harmonies and plenty of other psychedelic and resplendent sounds buzzing themselves around in the background that aren't surprising after you realize that Grizzly Bear hails from Brooklyn.
While following a common trend for the area, which is a great one, Grizzly Bear still manages to accomplish the hard task of standing out from a lot of similar projects by just simply holding more beauty.
"Horn of Plenty" speaks to me in a voice with the likeness to what Panda Bear might say in more of a lo-fi setting with better words to sing and, obviously, in a fight of the bears it's easy to say which would be triumphant anyway.
Grizzly Bear brings in the laid back and grimy drum work, as best shown in the tracks "Campfire" and "Fix It", which makes it so you really can't help but to hold your beer down at your side, close your eyes, and move yourself slowly and in half-time along with them. Among the crushed bits of an almost trip-hop vibe floating around because of this, there lives antiquated sounding pianos and homemade noises of pandemonium that take you into a world of despair, boredom and stories that you aren't sure of. Bells ring while the sun sets over Brooklyn every night with them on play.
There's no over-producing going on around here. Just real, first-take sounding truths and ideas that all fit together with that same feeling of honesty through 14 tracks, all unique in their own right, that are included on "Horn of Plenty".
Rating: 9/10
