Grizzly Bear reunited for his or her first dwell present in six years final evening (October 13) – try footage from the gig under.
The Brooklyn indie four-piece went on hiatus in 2019, two years after the discharge of their most up-to-date album, ‘Painted Ruins’.
In November 2023, a few months after sharing that he opened up his personal remedy follow, founder and co-lead vocalist Ed Droste advised that the band may finish their hiatus at some stage, and in Might this 12 months, the band introduced their return with information of a US tour within the autumn.
Final evening, the band kicked off the tour with their first of 5 homecoming exhibits at Brooklyn Metal, and the setlist took followers right through their profession. Their 2013 single ‘Will Calls’ bought its dwell debut, whereas ‘Alligator’, from their 2004 debut album ‘Horn Of A lot’, was performed for the primary time since 2008.
One other dwell rarity, 2006’s ‘Little Brother’, was performed for the primary time since 2014. And the present additionally noticed their first documented efficiency of ‘Deep Sea Diver’ (by way of Setlist.fm) – possible the primary time it’s been performed since 2005.
They performed a lot of their hottest tracks, too, together with ‘Two Weeks’, ‘But Once more’, and ‘Mourning Sound’.
Grizzly Bear’s Brooklyn setlist was:
‘Southern Level’
‘Alligator’
‘Sleeping Ute’
‘Mourning Sound’
‘But Once more’
‘Lower-Out’
‘Little Brother’
‘Prepared, In a position’
‘Fantastic For Now’
‘Foreground Play’
‘Whereas You Wait For The Others’
‘Will Calls’
‘Two Weeks’
‘On A Neck, On A Spit’
‘Three Rings’
‘Solar In Your Eyes’
Encore:
‘Deep Sea Diver’
‘Sky Took Maintain’
Talking to Pitchfork final week, they stated that they’ll be switching their setlists up each evening, Co-lead vocalist Daniel Rossen saying: “We’re making an attempt to stability the songs that we assume are the favored ones or algorithmically favorite songs, coupled with extra obscure songs that we perhaps wouldn’t have touched on the time.”
Tonight (October 14), Grizzly Bear are set to return to Brooklyn Metal, earlier than one other three exhibits there on October 16, 17 and 18. They’re then enjoying two exhibits in Chicago earlier than heading to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland. You possibly can discover remaining tickets right here.
From October 16, they’ll be joined by Seashore Home vocalist Victoria Legrand for a handful of songs every evening. “Actually honored to have such a queen with us,” they stated when saying the information final week.
Whereas on hiatus, Droste confirmed in 2020 that he’d left and was learning to develop into a therapist, although Rossen and drummer Chris Bear continued to work collectively within the meantime, together with on the soundtrack to the 2023 film Previous Lives.
Rossen additionally launched his debut solo album, ‘You Belong There’, in 2022, and supported it with a collection of North American and European tour dates.
