“Knife” by Grizzly Bear

"Knife" sits on Yellow House, the second album from Brooklyn indie rockers Grizzly Bear, and it became the record's second single on May 21, 2007. The writing credit is shared by Christopher Bear, Ed Droste, Daniel Rossen and Chris Taylor, and Taylor also produced and recorded it, then mixed it with Chris Coady. It files under baroque pop.

The video came from Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch of Encyclopedia Pictura, and it puts the band out under a desert sun working some kind of machine, in the company of a bearded figure and an eerie creature built from dust and rock. Rossen later admitted he'd been wary of the pair at first: the ideas they pitched before this one were far wilder, crammed with strange symbolism and a lot of sexual imagery, which makes the desert contraption look almost sensible.

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