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Horn of Plenty by Grizzly Bear

Horn of Plenty

Release Date: 2/8/2005

Recording Date: 11/2004

Tracks: 14

Length: 00:48:43 Hrs

Label: Kanine Records

Type: CD,LP

Genre/Styles:
Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock

Album Tracks (14)

Song Title
Length
1.
Deep Sea Diver
04:47
2.
Don't Ask
03:28
3.
Alligator
01:23
4.
Campfire
04:13
5.
Shift
02:19
6.
Disappearing Act
04:24
7.
Fix It
03:47
8.
Merge
02:24
9.
A Good Place
03:18
10.
Showcase
04:50
11.
Le Duchess Anne
04:20
12.
Eaves Dropping
03:51
13.
Service Bell
02:00
14.
This Song
03:39

What the Critics Say

Grizzly Bear's debut offers up a lysergic brand of minimalist psychedelic folk perfect for those who find Elliott Smith's early work a bit too accessible and upbeat. Largely the home recording project of singer/songwriter Ed Droste, Horn of Plenty was eventually augmented by multi-instrumentalist Christopher Bear. To these ends, the album features a mostly melancholy mix of acoustic guitars, reeds, retro organs, and samples, all drenched in enough acid-washed effects to give Devendra Banhart flashbacks. Droste's weary, somnambulistic vocals work well with the slackadaisical melodies to create an unsettling atmospheric sound full of shimmering shadows. Songs like the opening "Deep Sea Diver" and the mesmerizing "Shift" crawl along at an almost funereal pace, the latter featuring what sounds like a scratchy Gramophone recording of a piano augmented only by echoing whistles, clapping, trippy found sounds, and weirdly hypnotic multi-tracked vocals. As a whole, the album produces a murky sound that unfolds like a narcotic dream you can't quite shake upon waking. This is the kind of album you'll want to listen to late at night, perhaps a few sheets to the wind, with the lights off and headphones on to allow these creepy, quiet little tunes to worm their way into your subconscious. ~ Bret Love, Rovi

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