Grizzly Bear
plus special guests Beach House
Fri 12 Mar 8pm
Butterworth Hall: £16
Grizzly Bear are the Brooklyn four-piece whose post-Radiohead sonic vistas have been blowing many a mind in recent times. Their music utilises melody and ambiance in conjunction with hazy-eyed choruses, whistles, piano, banjo and several woodwind instruments.
Grizzly Bear released Yellow House in 2006. It was a slow, steady and stunning ride – boundless in scope and elegance. Given the album’s otherworldly charm and staying power, it’s hard to believe three years have gone by. There is an unbelievable clarity of sound and vision to new album Veckatimest: vocals (a duty now shared by all band members) are sharper and more complex, arrangements are tighter, production is more venturous and lyrics more affecting. Having opened the creative dialogue at such an early stage, Grizzly Bear was able to realise these 12 songs together as a band, making it their most collaboratively compositional album to date.
This yielded an unexpected mix of material that feels more confident, mature, focused – and most of all, dynamic. Veckatimest is an album of the highest highs and lowest lows – an unbelievably diverse collection of songs that celebrates the strength of each band member, and the power of the whole. It was well worth the wait.
“Discreetly swapping instruments as they fade graciously in and out of the spotlight, Grizzly Bear’s trio of lead-singers – Daniel Rossen, Ed Droste, Chris Taylor – create a supple and endlessly shifting musical landscape… a collective voice that is at once utterly distinctive and entirely plausible.” The Telegraph
Read the five star review of their gig at the Barbican here
| Fri 12 Mar | Butterworth Hall | 8:00pm |
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With a maximum capacity of 2000 standing or 1500 seated this concert hall has an outstanding natural acoustic and is the home of our International Concert Series, as well as the majority of our music gigs and big name comedians. Butterworth Hall has recently had a £6.9 million redevelopment and reopened in autumn 2009 .
