Grizzly Bear talk new album (and it's about damn time)

that's Ed Droste.

He told Drowned in Sound (who told Stereogum, who told me)
that they--GRIZZLY BEAR--are nearly 80% done with the tracking for their new album.
here are the details I filtered out:
+there's a children's choir on a few songs
+the drums will be more prominent
++Chris Bear (drummer) is producing again


this is what Ed says: "I can't tell you how excited we all are about it. It's definitely got more variety, higher highs and lower lows. [It's] much more dynamic and [has more] breadth in sound, not to mention a much more collaborative approach to the songwriting. With Yellow House, most of the songs were individually written by either Daniel [Rossen, guitarist] or myself beforehand and then brought to the table, whereas a lot of these were written as a band or brought in at very primitive levels and then fleshed out together, which means more shared lead vocals and back and forth interplay between everyone."

here is "two weeks" on letterman again
cause it is just THAT good