Oh, look I'm posting about Veckatimest.

Whilst I write this blog post, the Grizzly Bears are playing down at the Trocadero Factory Theater. It used to be a theater for monumental military victories, but when the area got gentrified it was converted into a theater but kept the name and the same "vintage" facade. But I digress. Much has been written about Veckatimest. It has been reported that The Grizzly Bears released an actual bear into Bucks County in support of the album. It has been reported that that actually didn't happen. It has been reported that Veckatimest is like srsly the best ever!!1! It has been reported that, no, actually, it kind of sucks.

My take on it is that it is pretty chill. I like listening to it. It's not revolutionary or new really even, at all, but enjoyable nonetheless. It reminds me of another, not so hyped-but-actually-pretty-similar band, The French Kicks. Specifically the song Two Weeks is basically a dead ringer for the song Piano from the French Kicks album One Time Bells, or their Young Lawyer EP. Like the beginnings of the two songs especially, if you listen to the first 30-45 seconds.

The French Kicks-Piano
Grizzly Bear-Two Weeks

So yeah. I liked the French Kicks.

On Veckatimest, I like the music in the song Dory but I don't like how Droste pronouces the words. He sounds British, but brah, you're from Massachusettes, chill, soundin extra pretentious.

I do wonder how much of the phenomenon that is Grizzly Bear is deserved. Could it be that for whatever reason they got tagged as a "cool" band, and that because of that people choose to like their music before they have heard it, because when they're with people they want to impress or become friends/secret crushes with they'd like to be able to talk about The Greazy Bears and have a connection with that person/people and also demonstrate their "coolness" by liking the Grizzles? And the fact that Grizzly Bear is easy to listen to, and pretty unobjectionable, in that what is there really to dislike makes it easier for these people to like GB. And an extension of that, how much of our music taste is comprable? Is all the music we listen to an extension of how we want to be perceived by others? Do we decide to like music that will make us fit in with a certain group of people? How come people who love country music all live in the south/midwest? How come people who like rap all live in the hood/suburbs? How come all the people who like DJ mashups all live on the internet (no offense Noah)?

Whatever. I give it a 9.0.

I think this will download, it might not, I'm still figuring out how to work a blog.
Grizzly Bear-Two Weekends