Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Colour Reissue)

Grizzly Bear never broke up. In the six years that have passed since their most recent shows, the four members who first drifted into the group two decades ago as loose friends and even total strangers - Chris Bear, Ed Droste, Daniel Rossen, Chris Taylor - have drifted out into other things. They’ve made other music, pursued other careers, cultivated other families, lived other lives beyond the bounds of being this band. And now, for the first time since 2019, these four musicians and friends will drift back into Grizzly Bear, to test the ties that made them one of this century’s most engrossing and beloved acts and see where else those old connections may yet lead. Because Grizzly Bear never broke up, their first shows in six years are not a reunion; they are a simultaneous point of arrival and departure, their next destination still unknown.

That sort of open-ended approach, after all, is what still makes Grizzly Bear one of this young century’s defining acts. Twenty years ago, they quickly morphed from a lo-fi songwriter project to a full band with an instantly singular sound, uncanny harmonies slipping around arrangements that paired the glow of a chamber orchestra to the grit of a rock group. They helped to redefine what was possible within indie rock by balancing lushness with looseness, a technical excellence with an emotional openness. Their musical traces remain ubiquitous, bits of their unorthodox perspective on sound and texture now part of the firmament. Hearing these songs live in 2025 will feel less like shaking hands with the past, then, than seeing their fingerprints in the present, as if for the first time.

To celebrate the band's return, colour vinyl album reissues of Yellow House, Veckatimest, Shields and Painted Ruins will be reissued.

Veckatimest is the third studio album by Grizzly Bear, first released on May 26, 2009, by Warp Records. The album is named after Veckatimest Island, a small island in Dukes County, Massachusetts. Produced by bassist and multi-instrumentalist Chris Taylor, the album entered the US Billboard 200 at #8, selling 33,000 copies in its first week of release.

Veckatimest was greeted with widespread critical acclaim, with the album generally viewed by critics as a large step forward for Grizzly Bear in regards to genre-blending, musical complexity and experimentation. 

MAGENTA 2LP 

Tracklist:
A1. Southern Point
A2. Two Weeks
A3. All We Ask
B1. Fine For Now
B2. Cheerleader
B3. Dory
C1. Ready, Able
C2. About Face
C3. Hold Still
D1. While You Wait For The Others
D2. I Live With You
D3. Foreground