{"id":6290,"date":"2013-02-05T17:06:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=6290"},"modified":"2013-02-05T17:06:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T17:06:22","slug":"grizzly-bear-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/02\/05\/grizzly-bear-shields\/","title":{"rendered":"GRIZZLY BEAR &#8211; SHIELDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/02\/05\/grizzly-bear-shields\/images-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6292\" alt=\"shields\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/images.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll start off by admitting I wasn\u2019t a big fan of Grizzly Bear\u2019s 2009 release, <em>Veckatimest<\/em>.<!--more--> And I know, I know, \u201cIt was really good,\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with you,\u201d blahblahblah. BUT, I will say this. Their latest release, <em>Shields<\/em>, is really, really good. Excellent in fact \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0so good it makes me believe I must have missed something in <em>Veckatimest<\/em>, and it is time for a re-evaluation. <em>Shields<\/em> has got a really fantastic new-age psychedelic sound to it that warbles and wobbles but truly adds another unique and interesting album to the group\u2019s repertoire. The culmination of fuzzy guitar, lead singer Edward Droste\u2019s pretty and wandering voice, as well as sheer ingenuity creates an exciting audio atmosphere to listen to. As a listener who was reluctant to give in to this band, I admit I was wrong. This album was finally completed after a series of \u201cprocesses of eliminations\u201d for the band. After an initial recording session in Texas, they ended up scrapping a lot of material and replaced it with material recorded in Cape Cod six months later. And while trying to fill in the gaps of songs with tricks from the past, they challenged themselves to come up with new sounds and patterns. All things considered, this is a good album &#8211; really, a Pitchfork wet dream. (Warp Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/warp.net\/\">warp.net\/<\/a>) <strong>Victoria King<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll start off by admitting I wasn\u2019t a big fan of Grizzly Bear\u2019s 2009 release, Veckatimest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[407,453,851],"class_list":["post-6290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-grizzly-bear","tag-indie","tag-shields"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}