Grizzly Bear (band)

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Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear in 2006
Grizzly Bear in 2006
General information
Genre (s) Indie rock
founding 1999
Website www.grizzly-bear.net
Founding members
Ed Droste
Current occupation
singing
 Ed Droste
Christopher Bear
Chris Taylor
Guitar , vocals
 Daniel Rossen

Grizzly Bear is an American indie rock - band from the New York District Brooklyn . The band combines traditional and electronic instruments and is often assigned to psychedelic folk or folk rock . Their sound is dominated by acoustic guitars and harmony vocals.

history

Singer and songwriter Ed Droste started Grizzly Bear as a solo project after moving from Boston to New York in 1999 . Together with drummer Christopher Bear he recorded the debut album "Horn of Plenty" in 2004 . After the line-up with bassist Chris Taylor and guitarist Daniel Rossen was complete, the British label Warp Records signed the band and released their second album, Yellow House , in 2006 . Then Grizzly Bear intensified the tour activities and played with Radiohead and TV on the Radio , among others . In 2007 the EP Friend was released . In 2008 they played with Paul Simon at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and collaborated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra .

The band achieved their commercial breakthrough in the summer of 2009 with the release of the album Veckatimest , which rose to number 8 on the US album charts and was also able to place in the album charts of various European countries.

Grizzly Bear contributed some of their pieces to the soundtrack of the 2010 film Blue Valentine .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Veckatimest
  DE 99 06/05/2009 (1 week)
  CH 96 06/14/2009 (1 week)
  UK 24 
silver
silver
06/06/2009 (2 weeks)
  US 8th 06/13/2009 (20 weeks)
Shields
  DE 40 09/28/2012 (2 weeks)
  AT 59 09/28/2012 (1 week)
  CH 29 09/30/2012 (3 weeks)
  UK 17th 09/29/2012 (3 weeks)
  US 7th 06.10.2012 (7 weeks)
Painted ruins
  DE 27 08/25/2017 (2 weeks)
  AT 46 09/01/2017 (1 week)
  CH 16 08/27/2017 (2 weeks)
  UK 14th 08/31/2017 (1 week)
  US 27 09.09.2017 (1 week)

Studio albums

  • Horn of Plenty (2004)
  • Yellow House (2006)
  • Veckatimest (2009)
  • Shields (2012)
  • Painted Ruins (2017)

EPs

  • Sorry for the Delay (2006)
  • Friend (2007)
  • Shields: B-sides (2013)

Singles

  • On a Neck, on a Spit (2006)
  • Knife (2007)
  • Live on KCRW (2009)
  • Two Weeks (2009)
  • While You Wait for the Others (2009)
  • Sleeping Ute (2012)
  • Yet Again (2012)

swell

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  3. ↑ Opulent beauty as a weapon against the narrow-mindedness of the world , review in Rolling Stone on August 9, 2017, accessed August 11, 2017

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