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Yellow House

EMAILPRINTby Grizzly Bear

Grizzly Bear reviews
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9.2 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 19 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Based on 46 votes
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Album Info

Label: Warp

Release Date: 05 September 2006

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Indie, Rock

Summary

This intricate second album for the Brooklyn-based band led by Edward Droste is their first for Warp Records.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

91

Stylus Magazine

A masterful record.

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90

All Music Guide

Yellow House is... required listening not just for fans of Horn of Plenty, but for anyone who enjoys ambitious, creative music with an emotional undercurrent.

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87

Pitchfork

Beyond production, Grizzly Bear have stepped up their songwriting in every way, assembling melodies that proceed in a logical fashion but never sound overused or overly familiar. Yellow House is a much better record than we could rightfully have expected from these guys, better, even, than we could have imagined them making.

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86

cokemachineglow

The melodies are entrancing, made even more intriguing by their submergence within the reverb, together resulting in an album whose scope and sound are impossible to ignore.

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80

Dusted Magazine

Where Horn of Plenty still had spare singer-songwriter arrangements, Yellow House sounds far more elaborate.

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80

The Guardian

The lo-fi has gone large-scale, each song slowly unfurling to reveal dense, dreamy rhythms, choirs of silky voices and opulent melodies rich in atmospherics.

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80

Playlouder

There's a kind of timeless haze that drifts through 'Yellow House' and makes it a pleasingly elusive listen.

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80

Uncut

The production is more sophisticated, the arrangements more intricate, the melodies and harmonies more complex. [Oct 2006, p.106]

80

Tiny Mix Tapes

Grizzly Bear are an Animal Collective that decided to go more intelligible and accessible instead of running naked through the woods on five hits of sunshine acid while screaming in tongues.

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80

Prefix Magazine

The attention to detail, the avoidance of crisp production, the resonance of the instruments and voices all contribute to the depth of the music and its ability to penetrate through to the listener in an almost raw and pure state.

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80

Under The Radar

This isn't a folk record by any means, but it's the one Grizzly Bear should have been making all along. [Summer 2006, p.81]

80

Urb

Submersive, almost submissive. [Jul/Aug 2006, p.118]

80

PopMatters

This is a big album: big-hearted, epic in scope and ambition, emotionally all-encompassing and yet somehow personal and quietly moving.

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76

ShakingThrough.net

This is a subtle, whispered scream of a work, one that demands nothing of a consumer’s time but pays decent dividends for those willing to make the investment.

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70

Lost At Sea

Yellow House is a keeper.

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70

Q Magazine

Out of step with the modern world. [Sep 2006, p.108]

70

Spin

The group... get more expansive--and more pop--on their second album. [Sep 2006, p.102]

60

Magnet

While Grizzy Bear often comes off as some backwoods cousin of the Elephant 6 collective, the band sports as much texture as Boards Of Canada. [#73, p.93]

40

Mojo

There's little discernable rhyme or reason holding it all together. [Oct 2006, p.110]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 9.2 (out of 10) based on 46 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Alexandra gave it a10:
There really aren't enough good things I could say about this album. Hauntingly beautiful. "Knife" is one of the most powerful songs I've heard in some time. Critics really underrated this one.

mike d gave it a10:
Upon first listen I was unsure about Yellow House, but the best albums are often those whose genius takes a while to appreciate. It is now one of my favorite albums ever. It has incredible staying power, and I find myself listening to it often and loving it more with each listen.

the weave gave it a10:
I'd give this a 9.5 were that an option (just because I don't like to throw 10s around), but I'll round up because it's a travesty that this album has such a low score. Solid through and through, if not always brilliant, never worse than very good, and that's a very rare thing.

miranda h gave it a9:
Yellow House is beautifully crafted & layered. Grizzly Bear captured an essence that is failing and fading...the simple lyrics stand out as honest and heartfelt. This is a great album.

Philip K gave it a10:
I don't know how some critics rated this below 70 (and I don't consider such ratings valid at all). This album is simply amazing: composition, musicianship, arrangement, effects. Everything is fantastic, and the songs, although each unique, fit nicely together as a cohesive unit. This album plays like a beautiful story.

Yepa J gave it a10:
I bought this album after seeing them life in BCN. I can't relate their music to anything I heard before: it's intriguing, detailed and beautiful.

R G gave it an8:
damn good album that flows brilliantly. there is this tension that their sound have that is about to explode but never does. arrangements just heighten the effect and those sparse drums become very special.

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