Grizzly Bear - "Frolic". An unreleased song from the early days of Grizzly Bear; it's called "Frolic" but it doesn't sound like one, sounds like a dirge, sounds like a man being slowly buried in gold coins, baubles, false gifts. Look at Grizzly Bear today and then look back at the far horizon, where they came from. Not darkness but twilight, not sadness but decay, dwindling, breath through a harmonica, just breath. The acoustic guitar, speaking in rounds, sounds like the setting on an old Casio - clipped, mean. When I woke up this morning I rolled onto my side and spoke, spoke into the grey room, and my voice was like a ghost's. [from Richard Parks' CONTENT. Contact him for a copy. / Meanwhile, Grizzly Bear's Shields is out now.]
(plate by Chad Wys)