Evening Music and Spinning on Air's special series, Independents Days continues as host David Garland turns to the innovative, art rock band Grizzly Bear. With lyrics that abstractly imply shifting personal relationships and music that's full of angles, shadows, and flashes of color, it seems Grizzly Bear's songs would hardly hold together. But somehow these tenuous elements combine to form songs that are forceful and engrossing. The Brooklyn-based band Grizzly Bear joins host David Garland in the WNYC Studio to perform and talk about their new music and their album Veckatimest.
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Thank God we still have recordings of people like the wonderful Marta Eggerth...and George Gershwin, and any number of people who lived in a time when you actually had to know how to sing, play, write or entertain before you were allow to stand in front of a microphone.
Instead of the nasal, tuneless aimless droning against nursery level chords we heard previously with Grizzly Bear. The very opposite of charm, thrill or entertainment.
Sorry, I'm not usually snarky but sometimes I find the staggering difference in the musicianship of artists 70 years ago compared to today to be depressing.
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