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Grizzly Bear- "Yet Again"

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Presented by the Creator's Project, here's a new video for the Grizzly bear track "Yet Again," which comes off the band's latest LP, Shields. Check a review of it here.

Historically, Grizzly Bear videos haven't exactly sat all to well withe me. The claymation on "Ready, Able" just seemed kinda messy to me, "While You Wait For the Others" was just all over the place," and "the Knife" just feels like a commercial for something when it's not too busy creeping me out. Did I mention the "Two Weeks" gave me nightmares for at least two weeks?

However, this new video for "Yet Again" kept me interested, and fit the song's cacophonous end perfectly. It all starts with an ice skater honing her skills, but then she goes on a kind of surreal journey, wandering her way to where she originally began.

Grizzly Bear - Shields

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Stream: Grizzly Bear - Shields Thanks to the good folks over at NPR Music, you can now stream Grizzly Bear’s latest studio effort, Shields. The album is the highly acclaimed indie rock band’s fourth full-length album and their debut release on Warp Records. As one might expect from Grizzly Bear, Shields is complex and uncompromising with its psychedelic passages and explorative song structures yet accessible thanks to its exalted sense of grace. While some fans might be disappointed by the record’s focus on baroque instrumentation over the electronic experimentation found on Yellow House--the band did sign to Warp Records after all--it’s difficult to come up with a band that can craft dual-natured songs the way Grizzly Bear can.

Grizzly Bear- "Yet Again"

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With a new album from Dirty Projectors out now and records from Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear on the way, the upper-tier indie scene this year is looking a lot like it did in 2009. Grizzly Bear's new single "Yet Again" is the second track to drop from their new record Shields, which will follow up 2009's landmark chamber pop album Veckatimest. If "Yet Again" and the previous single "Sleeping Ute" are any indication, the band's output is going to be a little more hard-edged this time around. Although it still bears the pretty harmonies and atmospheric elements that have always characterized Grizzly Bear's music, the stark guitar chords and drums on this track indicate that they may be working more in some darker territory than that which they explored on their last album. Although Shields may not turn out as sunny or as refined as Veckatimest was, "Yet Again" suggests that maybe it's not such a bad thing for this band to get their hands dirty again.

Stream "Yet Again" above and pre-order Shields now from Warp Records.