Yellow House by Grizzly Bear

Yellow House, Grizzly Bear's second album, came out on Warp in early September 2006, and it's the record where Ed Droste's bedroom project finally became a band. Horn of Plenty had been a lo-fi solo affair; here Christopher Bear's drums are joined by Daniel Rossen, now a second singer and songwriter, and Chris Taylor, the bassist and all-purpose multi-instrumentalist who also produced it. They made most of it in the house that gave it its name, the home of Droste's mother, and you can almost hear the floorboards creak: hazy chamber-pop arrangements, psych-folk drift and four voices stacked into harmonies that hang in the air like mist.

"Knife" is the heartbreaker, a slow sway built on ghostly harmonies. The critics swooned and the band's profile rose sharply, material from the same sessions surfaced the following year on the Friend EP, and Veckatimest came next.

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