Celebrating the 15th anniversary of Grizzly Bear’s album, Yellow House. This album marks the band’s first featuring the four members together: Ed Droste, Daniel Rossen, Chris Taylor and Chris Bear. Originally recorded at Ed’s mother’s house in Cape Cod, the album’s namesake, in 2005.
Poised between the purposeful lo-fi mustiness of Horn of Plenty and the flawless indie rock mega-hit Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear came into Yellow House sounding like no other group in 2006. Yes, this was indie rock to challenge the genre’s zeitgeist acts — Animal Collective, The Microphones, Arcade Fire et al — as the Brooklyn group demonstrated an auto-didactic and idiosyncratic way of generating psychedelic music with laser-sharp focus and serious songwriting chops quite distinct from their peers.
Yellow House is a ground zero album that went on to shape all alternative rock music in its wake — 15 years on its deep mystery is still singularly resounding.
