![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps the complexity of arrangements and uncomfortable time signatures in songs such as opening track “Sleeping Ute” are part of a concerted effort to wipe clean the memory of 2009 vintage Grizzly Bear as the band who soundtracked the Volkswagen commercial played during the prime-time ad break in Super Bowl XLIV. In many ways, Shields is a challenging record and a frustrating one, not because of any disappointments or shattered illusions but because it’s an album made by a band digging deep and casting their net wide for innovative ways to confound expectations. ![]() Just when you thought the success of previous album Veckatimest, and in particular the ubiquity of lead-off single “Two Weeks,” had changed Grizzly Bear from leftfield nu-folkies to baroque pop darlings, the Brooklyn quartet return with a grittier, more muscular record in Shields which manages to ask new questions of their audience while reassuring them with the comforting sensitivities of the past. ![]()
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