“Mourning Sound” by Grizzly Bear

"Mourning Sound" arrived on May 17, 2017, as Grizzly Bear unveiled Painted Ruins, their fifth album, and served as the record's second single. It began, Ed Droste told NPR, with a riff from Chris Taylor, who also produced it and mixed it with Shawn Everett; Daniel Rossen added the chorus later, and the song is credited to all four members, Christopher Bear included.

Droste and Rossen share the vocals, and the verses circle back to Droste's divorce a few years earlier. He described the feeling as regret tangled up with owning his share of the breakup, rather than pinning the blame on anyone else. The video, which came out with the single, follows a group of women dancing through a mansion before they gather for some kind of ritual.

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