Please forgive the long overdue update.
Ever since the release of my favorite album of 2006, Yellow House, I've combed the internet for anything else Grizzly Bear recorded. My iTunes library boasts way too many live recordings, and even JoJo and Paul Simon covers. Department of Eagles dates back to 2003 when current Grizzly man Daniel Rossen met freshman roommate Fred Nicolaus. The two released 2003's The Whitey On The Moon UK LP which combines hip-hop beats compared to a hypothetical retarded brother of DJ Shadow with Rossen's more conventional songwriting. Cool shit.
Anyway, these guys are set to release In Ear Park October 7th on 4AD. Track list is below, and for you all DOE fanatics, it seems to include the 2007 tracks "Balmy Night" and "No One Does It Like You." As a Bethlehem, PA resident, I can only wonder what "Floating on the Lehigh" means. Check out the title track along with one of my favorites of 2008: "While You Wait for the Others."
It would be unjust for me to post about Daniel Rossen and not mention Grizzly Bear's tour with Radiohead this summer and Letterman appearance July 23rd when they are slated to debut new song "Two Weeks."
1 In Ear Park
2 No One Does It
3 Phantom Other
4 Teenagers
5 Around the Bay
6 Herring Bone
7 Classical Records
8 Waves of Rye
9 Interlude
10 Floating on the Lehigh
11 Balmy Night
