Grizzly BearBest Grizzly Bear Albums Ranked
8.1
Avg Score
33
Opinions
10
Albums
8
Reviewers
Summary from 33 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Grizzly Bear's catalog across 10 albums from 33 opinions, with an overall average of 8.1/10. The top-rated Grizzly Bear album is Veckatimest (2009) with a 8.8/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Yellow House and Shields. The discography on Wavelength spans 2004 to 2017. Two Weeks ranks as the highest-rated Grizzly Bear song on Wavelength with a 9.0/10 average.
Shields
“Shields is Grizzly Bear's most compositionally adventurous record. Though full of baroque, detail-rich production and latticework melodies, it also offers an emotionally resonant core. The album is an excavation of loneliness, melancholy, and self-reliance.”
Painted Ruins
“Grizzly Bear are in no rush on the lovely Painted Ruins”
Veckatimest
“One of the year's most anticipated albums turns out to be worthy of the hype, as Grizzly Bear continue to expand their approach to lush chamber pop.”
Yellow House
“Edward Droste follows his group's lo-fi debut Horn of Plenty by employing a fulltime band, moving to Warp, and expanding his ambition and sound. The result is a major step forward for the group, as well as one of the year's best records.”
Shields
“On their 2009 breakthrough, Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear made the sound of agitation – squirrelly melodies, antsy rhythms, lyrics full of emotional surgery – into music that was lush, genteel and centered. With Shields, they still sound like Radiohead at a Buddhist retreat, but the songs are more muscular, increasingly driven by drummer Christopher Bear’s innate […]”
Shields: B-Sides
“Grizzly Bear have a history of putting out non-album releases that are much better and more meticulously arranged than they need to be. Culled from an intense recording session in Marfa, Tex., Shields: Expanded collects the best of these previously unheard tracks, which amount to captivating sketches, rather than scraps.”
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