Favorite tracks: SLEEPING UTE, YET AGAIN, SUN IN YOUR EYES
Least favorite track: A SIMPLE ANSWER
fantano
Shields
Grizzly Bear (2012)
6.0/ 10
“With Shields, the New York psych folk outfit Grizzly Bear makes a move toward subtlety, toning down some of the bright, poppy moments that made 2009's Veckatimest such a powerhouse.”
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metacritic
8.6
aoty
8.1
allmusic
7.0
rollingstone
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 […]
8.0
pitchfork
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.
9.1
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