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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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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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Where Horn of Plenty still had spare singer-songwriter arrangements, Yellow House sounds far more elaborate.
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Yellow House is a keeper.
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MagnetWhile 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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MojoThere's little discernable rhyme or reason holding it all together. [Oct 2006, p.110]
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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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There's a kind of timeless haze that drifts through 'Yellow House' and makes it a pleasingly elusive listen.
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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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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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Q MagazineOut of step with the modern world. [Sep 2006, p.108]
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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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SpinThe group... get more expansive--and more pop--on their second album. [Sep 2006, p.102]
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A masterful record.
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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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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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UncutThe production is more sophisticated, the arrangements more intricate, the melodies and harmonies more complex. [Oct 2006, p.106]
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Under The RadarThis 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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UrbSubmersive, almost submissive. [Jul/Aug 2006, p.118]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 88 out of 96
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Mixed: 1 out of 96
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Negative: 7 out of 96
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Nov 2, 2010
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Feb 8, 2015
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Jul 17, 2014