I would give that advice even to some younger bands that I see are confused at the moment they’ve kind of grown up in the age of downloadable, streamable content, so they’ve had access to a million things at a time.
I feel that we have our own thing going and it’s still unfinished, so let’s just keep going, working that out. There’s a million records coming out all the time and I felt that we should just continue to develop our own voice and really not try and copy other influences. I just gleaned my favourite parts out of it. It was kind of interesting and then also at times I just skipped ahead. After finishing each record I’ve just never listened to them again, really. I had a six-hour drive ahead of me and I thought, okay, we haven’t made a record in a long time, I guess I should familiarise myself with our catalogue. I was driving up to Big Sur (a coastal stretch of road between Los Angeles and San Francisco) alone to go and write some music for the record. I thought about this, and I don’t mean this to be any sort of semantic cop out, but I thought a lot about where our influences should’ve kind of come from. Were there any particular influences at play here? I’m quite familiar with your work but had to listen hard to detect the Grizzy Bear DNA. There are so many different musical styles on the album. We were always very ambitious but this has a different kind of way of doing that.
I think this is your most ambitious album yet. STACK’s Paul Jones spoke with Chris Taylor about Grizzly Bear’s writing and recording process and whether we can expect to see the band in Australia on their forthcoming tour. Chris Taylor (bass) and Daniel Rossen (guitars/vocals) recorded and toured solo material, while Ed Droste (guitars/vocals), Chris Bear (drums) and Taylor all left the East Coast to settle in Los Angeles.įollowing a lengthy sabbatical, the band reconvened to write for a new album, returning to the studio in 2016 to begin recording what would become Painted Ruins. A confluence of diverse musical styles inspires the band’s new material, resulting in what is undoubtedly their best record to date. After touring the record for two years, the four-piece Brooklyn band needed to take some time out. It’s been five years since Grizzly Bear released their last album, Shields.
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