Grizzly Bear: “Sleeping Ute” from Shields (Warp, 9/18/12)
Three years after Grizzly Bear became a mainstay of artsy indie rock with its breakthrough effort, Veckatimest, the Brooklyn outfit concocted another beautiful and haunting album. Opener “Sleeping Ute” is a mini-masterpiece unto itself, showcasing the album’s range and multitude of forms as bubbling synth arpeggios and acoustic finger-picking accent a powerful pop structure.
Pretty cool list of songs for 2012.