15: Shields

Support the Official Release

You can listen to Grizzly Bear’s Shields on:

• Apple Music
• Spotify

Or purchase Shields on:

• Amazon Music

Links

• Grizzly Bear’s discography
  • Yellow House (2006)
  • Veckatimest (2009)
  • Shields (2012)
  • Painted Ruins (2017)
• “Damn BOI HE THICC”
• Albums: available now for free on the iOS App Store
• Mentioned credits:
  • Ben Wilkerson Tousley
  • Richard Diebenkorn
  • Michael H. Brauer
  • Ryan Gilligan
  • Bob Ludwig
• “That Guy” is Real Estate’s Alex Bleeker, who famously writes a token song per album, such as:
  • “Wonder Years” from 2011’s Days
  • “How Might I Live” from 2014’s Atlas
  • “Diamond Eyes” from 2017’s In Mind
• Shields: B-Sides
• Aftershow: The Last of Us Part II. If you haven’t played it, play it. It’s a masterpiece.

References

Chris Bear and I went to Mexico for a month. It was in Baja, this cute little cheap place. There was no one around, no cell reception. We could focus on doing stuff. We wrote ten songs and were so stoked. Then we brought it to the other two guys and they were like, “We’re not understanding what you’re going for here. This isn’t really our vibe.” We were deflated. The only song from the Mexico sessions that made it was “Yet Again.”

Ed Droste, genius.com

Art

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