Alright I listened to the rest of Grizzly Bear's albums this morning.
Basically, there's Yellow House, and there's everything else. Horn of Plenty was OK, but not great, and essentially, the newer the album was, the more "meh" it was.
They had a great sound on Yellow House with all those acoustic instruments (flutes, banjos, etc) plus the extensive use of harmonies. Seems to me there was plenty of additional room to explore there, but aside from a few songs here and there on the other albums, it seems like they gave up on the sound. Pity. I can understand them wanting to make each album sound different, but I don't know why they didn't try to do more with the nice sound they had on Yellow House.
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