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A masterful record.
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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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87Beyond 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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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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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]
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80There's a kind of timeless haze that drifts through 'Yellow House' and makes it a pleasingly elusive listen.
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80The production is more sophisticated, the arrangements more intricate, the melodies and harmonies more complex. [Oct 2006, p.106]
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80Submersive, almost submissive. [Jul/Aug 2006, p.118]
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80The 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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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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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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Where Horn of Plenty still had spare singer-songwriter arrangements, Yellow House sounds far more elaborate.
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80This 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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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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70Out of step with the modern world. [Sep 2006, p.108]
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70The group... get more expansive--and more pop--on their second album. [Sep 2006, p.102]
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70Yellow House is a keeper.
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60While 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]
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40There's little discernable rhyme or reason holding it all together. [Oct 2006, p.110]
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