Grizzly Bear recently performed a new song on KCRW’s  Morning Becomes Eclectic. The band show they are capable of creating a incredible atmosphere wherever they are, and parallels can be drawn between the qualities of this performance and the creation of their 2006 Album Yellow House, an album the group recorded in the empty former home of band member Ed Droste’s grandmother.

The texture of Yellow House is soaked in the empty, austere space of light-soaked boards, time-worn walls, and acute shadows cast against empty spaces. An ethereal tapestry is draped over the music, and echoes of a dreamlike state saturate the vocal harmonies which are so much a part of the sound. With the roots of the group formed in those surroundings, the four musicians have found the cohesion to transport that atmosphere, and infuse it with the limpid, crystalline characteristics of a unique sound.