Veckatimest

Good, didn’t expect it to sound the way it did

this never fully forms into something I love but it's fine enough. runs a little long. on the lower end of a three really.

have always adored the song Two Weeks so was looking forward to this. The rest of the album was a lot more depressing than I expected. Can't say I really enjoyed listening to any other song. Kinda wild that an album with a song I'd rate 10/10, I can probably only rate 5 or 6/10 as a full album. Favourite Tracks: - Two Weeks - Foreground

Какая-то непонятная для меня музыка, очевидно кроме Two Weeks. Причем она так отличается от остального альбома. Как будто авторы сами воспринимали ее как поп-хит-замануху послушать весь альбом, где уже более серьезный и качественный материал. Но по мне этот поп-хит - единственное интересное, что там есть.

Gay ass sad songs

Главная песня прикольная, от остального у меня были стандартные нейтральные эмоции, которые я испытываю при прослушивании 70% инди-рок групп (особенно нулевых)

Слушал до этого только сольник дэниэля россена, тот был кайфовый. Добрался и до группового творчества, тоже хорошечно, фолк в массы пацаны и пацанессы

звучит хорошо, понравилось, 3.5 в большую сторону, two weeks если вслушиваться в детали - вообще замечательно там все

No sabía que Two Weeks era de ellos, me ha hecho una ilusión... ¡Tremenda! Por lo demás es un disco tranquilo, quizás melancólico por momentos, y que me ha pillado en un día de no haber dormido, así que no le he prestado toda la energía que merece, porque el grupo me gusta bastante. Canciones favoritas: Southern Point, Two Weeks

¿Qué se suponía que había que escuchar aquí? Digo, no es un mal disco, pero como para ser uno que se deba escuchar antes de morir le resta bastante. Mejor que el promedio, pero, no es la gran cosa.

Yet another temporal diversity hire. This boring noodly whiny nonsense is completely inconsequential and had no cultural impact whatsoever.

Felt like listening to an hour of iPhone commercials.

I’m falling asleep just writing the review… I thought they were a one-hit wonder with Two Weeks…guess I was right!

Can you imagine how boring this band would be live? They better have an actual bear on stage

Encore un album sans grand intérêt, mais pas nul. Encore un trois ultra-tiède. Pas de temps à perdre avec ces conneries aujourd'hui.

It was really good, though now that some time has passed, nothing actually jumps out in my mind as being memorable.

01) Southern Point - 7,5 02) Two Weeks - 8,0 03) All We Ask - 7,0 04) Fine for Now - 7,0 05) Cheerleader - 7,0 06) Dory - 6,5 07) Ready, Able - 7,5 08) About Face - 7,0 09) Hold Still - 6,5 10) While You Wait for the Others - 7,5 11) I Live with You - 6,0 12) Foreground - 7,5 TOTAL: 7,08 (71/100) Current ranking: 541/1019

pretty much ass

It's kind of indieslop with some Arcade Fire vibes, but damnit I think I'm allowed to enjoy indieslop from time to time

Insipid indie rock in the vein of Arcade Fire.

like arcade fire but not as good Will I listen to again: 5%

Está chévere, guardé 3 canciones, me gusta la fusión que hacen, aunque algunas canciones ya se vuelven muy smooth para mí en ese estilo, como las ultimas 2, borings

dropped on my birthday literally the best album in the world

Souless

Quite enjoyed that! 4/5

It’s a little saggy in the middle, but aren’t we all? Apart from that, I liked this atmospheric album, especially as it’s really not what I was expecting.

Some of the reviews here writing this off as hipster bullshit or whatever make me want to step up and defend this record some. At least wrt “hipster” it was in no way accepted that this would be as broadly well-received as it was in 2009 and they were no longer on the bubble or relative unknowns. So that doesn’t quite sync up with the scant, remaining notions of hipsterdom in the late 00s. But as a record, its highs - a couple singles - don’t entirely outweigh its meandering lows, which constitute the bulk of the run time. Which is true for every GB record and likely the result of their somewhat democratic construction - everyone gets their say, everyone contributes, rather than 1 or 2 first among equals calling the shots. For me, the ultimate undoing for every GB record are the pedestrian vocal melodies Droste largely engages in. The simplicity of this tendency is an asset at times - 2 Weeks, Knife - but when he reaches for something closer to Rossen’s facility with scales, the effect is more of a first draft or placeholder (which Rossen runs into lyrically at times). And yet, there’s enough here to still enjoy the record just, in hindsight, the highs on Yellow House have stood the test of time whereas this is almost more of a minor key doodle at times. I have no doubt they could’ve (or could yet still) created a solid album that embraces their diverse strengths, but that has not yet happened.

Thought I would like it more, meh

Fav song: Two Weeks

pretty. flew under the radar for me. 3.5

Ok, some good songs but except for the hit nothing spectacular. 6/10

Weer zo’n mega nostalgisch album. Wat heb ik dit veel geluisterd als kind. Vooral two weeks en ready able waren/zijn mijn favorieten. Super millennial twee

ganz coole melodien aber manchmal auch bisschen langweilig :( klingt manchmal bisschen nach tame impala Ready, able sehr cool

Only really knew ‘Two Weeks’ before this so this was a nice surprise, hauntingly beautiful.

I’d only heard their album Shields prior to this album, but as a whole Grizzly Bear sounds just like a band called Grizzly Bear. I felt lost in the woods the entire time. Folksy? Check. Arty? Check. Folksy arty rocky? Check!

I mainly noticed "Two Weeks" as this is a song that is getting used in movies and shows from time to time (and TikToks lately I guess as well)

high school absolute love

This was better than I expected going into it. Decently interesting, not a masterpiece. Not bad. Could see a few of these being songs I'd hear again someday and be glad they are on.

I fell asleep about half way into my first listen. This is a pretty good album to fall asleep to. It's a solid well produced sound with a couple of standout moments, but not enough variety to make it standout as a whole. Pretty good for 2009.

Son bastante originales y reconocibles. Su sonido es demasiado denso para escuchar un disco entero pero en pequeñas dosisi son agradables.

already familiar with this one, it's a great album that is also a great entry point to their catalog, as their other albums are a little more experimental, but it's not my favorite from them. still though, as i said previously, it is a great album worth your time.

Middling album. Music goes from interesting to dull by middle of disc

I'm really glad Grizzly Bear and this album showed up. The first song, "southern point," has been on my playlist for a long time, so I've heard it many times, but I'm not as familiar with the rest of the album, so much so that I forgot that the famous "two weeks" was the second track, or even that it was a song of theirs. They strike me as cut from the same cloth as the fleet foxes, but the vibe is more melancholic, contemplative, and dreamy, and the composition style is more experimental, while still possessing a sound that is unique to them. (It is truly a feat to have an identifiable sound without becoming stale. Some characteristics that stand out are drums that use a lot of toms and ethereal, reverbial instrumentals juxtaposed by dry vocals.) Every song has so much intrigue that I did not find the slower tracks to be boring whatsoever. 5 stars

This one came out in 2009, and I remember being aware of it, and thinking I might buy it, but I never did, and I think that must be, at least in good part, because that was around when I realized that 1) I already had too many CDs, and 2) I could listen to a lot of CDs by checking them out from the library. Not sure I ever did, though, because this mostly doesn't sound familiar to me, other than track 2 ("Two Weeks"). Then again, if I checked it out once, 15 years ago, would I remember it? (Probably not?) The music (choral harmonies, in particular?) sort of reminds me of Fleet Foxes, maybe? After 2 (not super careful, I'll admit) listens, I've decided that a low 4 stars sounds about right for this one. It's pretty good stuff, good variety/creativity/willingness to experiment, good harmonies - was gonna venture to call it "chamber pop," and I see that Wikipedia validates that. Not special enough for a 5, I don't think, but good enough to give it a 4, I think, rather than a 3. My main hesitation about a 4, I think, is that I wonder whether it's possibly slightly stronger on cleverness than musical quality; or, to put it another way, strong on intellect, but possibly a little weak on . . . heart & soul? But, nonetheless, I'm sticking with 4 stars, and would still take this over a lot of other stuff that's more popular. Very glad to have had the chance to listen to this one, and this is one that I would possibly want to come back to again, later.

Two Weeks is a good song. I have known it for a long time and never bothered to listen to anything else by Grizzly Bear, and I can see I was not amiss. The rest is more of a wash. They're trying to do some interesting things, but it doesn't make much of an impression on me. I'm feeling a low three

No. Self indulgent crap

Favorite track(s): Southern Point, Two Weeks, Fine For Now, While You Wait for the Others, I Live With You

I quiet enjoyed this one!

Solid indie rock of its era, which may also be our present era?

Great! Brings back memories from college.

This one is strange for me ... I've liked the song "Two Weeks" casually for years, and I'm pretty sure I listened to the album in the past, but don't really remember what I thought at the time. I think my expectations were maybe too high going in this time, because I found myself a bit bored. I don't dislike anything in particular about it; I was just hoping for more like "Two Weeks," I guess.

Grew up with this album's top songs, but it has been a long time since I listened to it. First song had some elements I liked, but not quite polished. "Two Weeks" is the obvious standout and a good song, but not as glorious as I remember. Third song is so refrained, and honestly I wish it gave in more. The percussion is very fun, but the song tries to hard to be serious I feel like. Its a lot of shaky singing and loud drums. I do like the percussion, and interlude style music, but it isn't enough. Goes into a few songs that are pretty slow and skippable. "Ready, Able" is a fun different song, but again it is just so reserved. I want more oomph. I know slow and restrained can be more powerful sometimes, but this just isn't the case for me here. "About Face" has great music, but the vocals are lacking for me. Song 9 is skippable, but 10 was good. 11 is great for a soundtrack of something. Last song is okay. Overall, everything was a little worse than I remember. But the songs aren't bad, they are composited very well, have fun and different instruments, there is just something missing in the vocals and the polish for me. 2/5 Favorite Tracks: Two Weeks, All We Ask, Least Favorite Tracks: Cheerleader, Dory,

Millennial hipster bullshit. Honestly, had I listened to this back around when it released, I'd have probably been really into it. But listening for the first time now, it's perfectly fine. Nothing that blows my mind, but not really speaking to me either.

What a rough weekend, three one-star albums in a row. The songs were completely uninspired and dull. I wouldn’t even rate this album as decent background music.

Mostly new to me, but nothing I want to return to outside of the single I already knew

not the best, not the worst. It grew on me and I kinda like it but it reminds me of a guy who sucks who looooooved this band and it’s kind of tainted.

#58 - Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest ⭐️ I’ve never heard to Grizzly Bear before. My initial reaction is that their sound doesn’t match their name at all. Heavy metal or country, either one would have made sense. But this is just some boring indie rock that I have truly no interest in.

"Two Weeks" is good. Really good in fact. The rest of it is kind of boring.

Nakon par sekundi slušanja rekla sam da mi se ovo neće svidjeti. To može značiti ili da se nakon 400+ albuma još nisam riješila predrasuda ili da sam dobro uštimana sa svojim željama i mislima. Hajmo reći da je to drugo jer mi se ovo nije nimalo svidjelo.

That's one I'll never listen to again. The second track was OK. Other than that I just wanted it to end

I LOVED this album! More quiet, subtle, and whimsy, but I personally love that

Not bad entirely

Somewhere around halfway through the album I just forgot I had it on. Not particularly interesting, but not devastatingly bad either, just not interesting.

it’s alright, nothing more nothing less

Uniquely great

Not really my thing.

I really did not get the point. If this were playing in an elevator, I would make haste to find the stairs. In fairness, the last few tracks pick up the energy enough to bump it to a 3, but this was a test of endurance.

Indie slow not my type

Eclectic - some Beach Boys in there, some Dr John, some Pink Floyd, some ELO, Big Star, and some Jeff Buckley, too

It's technically well made, the production is good but I don't give a shit, it's uninteresting. 2.5/5

Tell me, is there a more evocative sound than the 'ah ah ahhhh ahs' of Two Weeks? Probably, but not many. I just think this album is as great now as it was when it came out, and - to be clear - I thought it was magnificent then. There's a load of snootiness about it being for hipsters and irritating, but guess what! I don't care about that. It's somehow simultaneously sparse and all-enveloping, and his voice is just great. There was a brief period with this, Bon Iver, Beach House, Deerhunter and a few others when lads in the woods wearing check shirts and being a bit sad was such a key aesthetic, and I think losing that is really the moment that the rot set in.

I found Veckatimest a little too long, but Foreground spoke directly to my soul. The album’s sound was warm, wholesome and beautiful.

Still trying to decide if I liked it

started out great and then dragged

Two weeks é A música do álbum, o restante é morno.

A lot of memories here. It does drag at parts and there are a few unnecessary tracks, but the best ones shine.

There are some good moments, but this one has always been too sleepy for my taste.

Dit is een beetje vreemde muziek. Ook niet leuk als achtergrondmuziek. **

Pretty cool, albeit not earth-shattering.

Some interesting bits. Didn't grab me though.

Didn't know them previously. Feel like I've missed out on something intelligent. Songs meander from the slightest beginnings then explode. The ethereal the worthy bedfellow of the gritty.

This is reminiscent of My Morning Jacket, not so much in the sound of the music so much as I liked what I heard initially — it has promise — before becoming self-referential and providing nothing to hold onto. It just faded into the daylight. Blink, and it's gone.

A delicate record, one that I'm sure will reward repeated listens. Will I revisit this? Unsure, but I appreciate the aesthetic even if none of the compositions stayed with me. I feel like this is a 3.5, but I can't seem to make myself give it a 4.

What a treat to discover Grizzly Bear. This listen kept getting more enjoyable as it went along and this morning I started exploring their earlier stuff.

I think prefer yellow house (not on this list) but still a great album. Maybe a bit too long. But I always enjoy listening to it.

Been a long time since I listened to this one and it isn’t quite as good as I remembered. Some really great songs and a fair few skips too.

Nice vibe, but not very outstanding

Beautiful album, 2 week is so good

I thought Veckatimest would be a much more upbeat Psychedelic Folk project based on the very vibratnt colours and look of the project, but I was not expecting a very mystifying and crushing Folk project whatsoever. Even with this album being much more dry and emotional, I still thought I'd be able to connect with it more, but ultimately I felt it was like a club I couldn't get into and I had to admire from afar without every getting to truly understand what makes it so great. The production here is very unique and interesting, but that is about all I can really compliment as nothing really stuck around with me. For as stuffed full of ideas this project is, it feels like an album you either get or you won't with no real in between being provided whatsoever. I can appreciate the amount of time and dedication being put in to make something sound this original, but I really wish it was more welcoming to my ears. Such a shame as I had hoped for years Veckatimest would be for me and yet here I am bummed as hell with the output. Maybe with time I will get this, but for now this is a dud.

me gusto mas de lo q me esperaba lol 7,5/10

Wow I loved this! Gauzy, wistful, and brand new for me. A rare gem that this list hath finally served. Thank you!

It’s fine.

not for me, self-indulgent rock

This one came out of nowhere for me, really dug the acoustic styling's. Caught me right.

I tend to be hard on the music of my people (cheugy millennials), but this is one that holds up to me. I once saw these guys play at a festival, and expected them to not come off that well. They did, far better than I thought they would. I’m maybe rewarding that a bit here, too.

pleasant padded drums and meaningless lyrics. Drags and its boring.

Was fine

3.0

One of those albums that I feel like I've always known about but never listened to until now. Pretty average indie rock album but it's pleasant enough. If I was a little more of a hipster I would be all over this shit. Favorite track: Two Weeks

I tried listening to it but from a modern perspective, it just sounds like any generic indie rock album and I got bored. Before I got bored it was pretty decent but I don't think I would come back to this for a long time.

A combination of detailed, well-ornamented folk and 2000's indie. While it sounds like shouldn't be especially interesting on paper, I am actually really fond of this project. I usually like my folk a little more lo-fi, but I kind of naturally appreciate this as 2000's indie instead, and for some reason that helps a lot. The clean sound of this works well with the very precise arrangements and pretty songs. It almost sounds twinkling, and it really works for me. There are lush guitars, textural percussion and gorgeous harmonies. It helps that the songs still feel earnest and tactful despite this. It's kind of a baroque take on pop songs that I like a lot. Two Weeks kind of makes sense as a hit, it kind of has an immediacy that is really valuable for a hit. But some of te deep cuts here, like All We Ask, Fine For Now, About Face, and I Live With You.This is one of my favorite *albums* from the late 2000s indie rock era. These are great songs, executed with a lot of poise and creativity, and they make Veckatimest well outlive the era it's from.

Shields by these is much better

Not bad.

Some bangers here, and these guys have obviously listened to Roxy Music and Talking Heads a lot. But... This album does become a bit tedious about half way through.

Not sure why people were/are so offended and disgusted by the 2000s hipster music scene. Great album with tons of layers and complexity.

Complètement ma came ce genre d'ambiance. C'est excellent et super original. Je me suis pas ennuyé une seule seconde, tout est super bien texturé et les highlights sont très très bons. 1) I live with you 2) While you wait for the others 3) Two weeks

Si Osef

Très bonne musicalité, de belles propositions

It started out with a few strong tracks, but meandered through the rest of the album. There are much better albums in the genre than this one. It's not bad, but not great.

Some damn nice Indie vibes.

Interesting. Probably never listen to it again.

One exceptional song really elevates this album, which is mostly morose indie music. It's the song to album equivalent of LeBron James early in his Cleveland run (apologies to my fave Cav, Big Z). Top tracks: "Two Weeks," "While You Wait for the Others," "Ready, Able"

lol no

--Southern Point...some freak folk. weird and cool --Two Weeks...the way these guys wrestle odd sounds into accessible pop is admirable --All We Ask...not as compelling as first two tracks --Fine for Now...challenging but it could definitely grow on me --Cheerleader...not a lot going on with the song structure but the production keeps things interesting --Dory...an LSD dream. a pleasant one --Ready, Able...see "Dory", although I may prefer this --About Face...pretty but boring --Hold Still...see "About Face" --While You Wait for the Others...injects some much needed caffeine --I Live with You...it's all very interesting but it never really congeals --Foreground...sounds like the rest of the album

Veckatimest was a surprisingly enjoyable album. I've never heard of this band prior to doing this so i didn't know what to expect but what i got here was something really enjoyable. The album shares that trait with a lot of 2000s pop rock albums in that it's very melodic and that was the main thing pushing a lot of these songs along. The musicianship was pretty good for the most part during this album but there are definitely some awkward moments throughout this album. However, they never really got too much for me to bear. I still thought that this was a very enjoyable album and certainly a solid addition to the list. Best Song: Cheerleader Worst Song: I Live With You

Meh…

Nice vibes, a little bit repetitive after a few songs.

noce

Nothing quite like some good ol' indie folk rock. I'll be honest, this is far from the most interesting or revolutionary thing I've heard in the genre, but it's just so typical of the kind of thing I would listen to that I can't help but love it. The more prominent folk influences actually keep it feeling really interesting, as it just adds another layer to it to stop the album from just being "another 2000s indie rock album." The performances too are just all around top notch, with a lot of genuine passion and emotion being on full display multiple times throughout, which again adds another layer to the depth of the music and makes it feel like there's so much more going on.

This is possibly the most British-sounding non-British band I’ve ever heard, in that slightly odd, art-school, “WTF is this?” kind of way. I can't pin them to a genre, which is maybe the point. This is music that’s not so much genre-slippery as fully genre-fluid. In some ways, this feels like what might have happened if prog had carried on evolving instead of becoming a museum piece: intricate, ambitious, strange, but still melodic and listenable. The only downside is that it took me three listens to properly get my head around it, and has therefore cost me a few days on this 1001 marathon. I'm glad I had the patience - for a change. Me likee. 4½

Reeks of 2000s PBR and pretentious smugness

definitely would have loved this when it came out, and there are a few great hits on here

two weeks sounds nothing like the rest of the album

It's ok. Tried this one when new and ... Same result

They certainly picked great singles from the album, the rest seems quite like a filler.

I don't know what's happened to me, but this is not as great as I remember when I first listened to it when I was younger. 3.5/5. Not quite 3, not quite 4 either.

Listens: 5 or 6? Standout Tracks: Two Weeks, Ready, Able, While You Wait For The Others, Foreground I found myself really enjoying this. I listened to the album probably 6 times over the course of the day. Even by my own standards, I normally don't do that often. Even at almost an hour long, it was engaging; And I normally don't go in for harmonies, either. I seem to gravitate towards the singles, but the whole album is satisfying. I have no need to skip around and have no disliked tracks. Feels like a genuine "indie" band. Reminds me of Elbow, minus the British.

I'm actually a big indie rock fan, but this album is nothing but boring; it was really a chore to listen to.

ik denk gewoon niet dat ik dit had moeten horen voordat ik eventueel sterf

What a snooze fest.

just nothing

La verdad me encantó. Me trajo sonidos muy distintos de cosas que me gustan. Una voz ochentosa medio Tears for Fears, música variada, melanco, no sé, me gustó. Tengo ganas de escucharlo con auris sin hacer más nada que escuchar.

Except for that one song, was not a fan, got through it but would not listen again

Lowk ahh

Not my favorite album I've ever listened to, but unobjectionable

This just feels so vapid. A flash in the pan with one admittedly solid hit. Oversteeped in hipsterdom; at some points they become an America cover band.

This is the type of indie music that I just don't gel with. It relies too much on having a 'vibe' than any hooks and I found this album to be completely forgettable, even after I gave it two full listens. Boasting layered harmonies, "Two Weeks" sounded like a group of hipsters trying to reimagine the Beach Boys, but with limited success. It is still my favourite cut on here though. Some of the more busier and noisy parts of songs show a lot of potential, but everything goes on for far longer than it needs to be here. Technically everything sounds decent, so I can't hate on this too much. For a band called Grizzly Bear, these guys don't have a lot of bite.

Good in parts, can sort of see why someone might be into this 3.5*

Never heard before. Liked better than average.

Soooo of its time for better and worse both

Not bad but also not the most interesting album. I like the music but it’s nothing I would listen to again.

eeeeeeOkei... aburrido, no nme molestaria k eeste en el auto pero eee mmm

I have not heard of them. Nice vocals and harmonies. A quiet album. Really stripped down. Genre: indie/alternative No songs really stand out. Not bad. Three stars.

The soundscapes on Veckatimest are gorgeous. I've never heard anything quite like it. I bought the CD when it came out and have played it many times. But...every time I've listened all the way through, I wait for the goosebumps to hit and they never do. It's like I'm standing in the cold and can see a crackling fireplace through a window. I always feel a little outside of it. I enjoy the sonic world when this album is on, but none of these songs really stay with me once it's over. Except the catchier Two Weeks, which - controversial opinion maybe - I never liked. Southern Point is probably my favorite and I wish more of the album leaned into that sound. I also like Cheerleader. But even though I don't fully connect, I absolutely think this album is worth a listen.

lite meh

- I am sure this will sound rude, but there is a reason why "Two Weeks" is the clear standout here. - This would usually be up my alley, but something about most of these tracks just felt anemic...every time the song got close to breaking into a different emotional, melodic, or rhythmic register (the orchestral elements of "I Live With You" being an example), Grizzly Bear just treats to the monotony of its haunting melancholy. This band should be better than this. - Dumb point: releasing a song called "Dory" that references fish known as dory was bold and probably misguided so close to the powerhouse of Finding Nemo.

They have an interesting and distinctive sound, but it’s not for me.

Bon

Good for background music

4/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/grizzly-bear/veckatimest/ Not equally great, but some songs are among the indie pantheon. Guess I like other albums of them better, but I do understand why this one specifically is in the list.

Sort of indifferent. Give it another listen.

Lots of people recommend these guys to me when they were big, but I've just never got it.

Decent late 00's rock, very listenable

Rubbish

Peaks at “Two Weeks”

two weeks is peak

It might be because I wasn’t in the right mood, but this album felt too passive and boring for me

Not a fan. Just did not vibe to it personally.

This felt consistently boring throughout. I couldn’t even finish it in one sitting. 4/10

Okay, but nothing that makes we want to listen again. Great musicians, and singers.

3.8

This is one of my favorites, the whole album is great. "Southern Point", "All We Ask" and "While You Wait For The Others" are amazing.

Good not amazing. Two weeks was the only one I knew and only standout.

I really liked just one song

- Another pleasant surprise

Pretty musical, dreamy. Wasn't feeling it at first, it got interesting for spells, and ultimately never really took off for me. When it's good, it's pretty damn good, and when it isn't, it's pretty meh.

Really solid indie rock album. I was surprised to see I already had a song added from the album before I listened. I like the old school sound of the instruments and vocals on this album, it’s reminiscent of 1970s and 1980s soft rock. I would listen to more from this band.

Quality album, two weeks is the stand out track but it all sounds good overall.

Really interesting band/album was hearing loads of different elements and influences really enjoyed it. Would need further listening

“Two Weeks” is an incredible song. The others songs are different, but didn’t really connect with them. May need to listen again Rating: 6/10 Favorite Song: Two Weeks

Why would you name your band Grizzly Bear if your music sounds like THIS?!?!

Incredibly boring album, like 2 good songs and there was a lot of absolutely nothing in the middle of this

“Two Weeks” is one of my favorite songs these past few years but I didn’t really get the rest of the project Playlist add: "Two Weeks"

Never heard of this but I liked

Amei!

I hadn't heard this band before. They were pretty good.

I don't know why I never followed up on Two Weeks. I liked it as a radio hit: big vocal hook, rhythmically interesting. But perhaps too much like the other bedroom indie of the period, which promised much competence and dazzle, but always ended up shallow and muddled. Listening now, I was probably right. Two Days with its dazed fixation on time - "save up all the days/a routine malaise" - diagnoses something, that wide access of digital recording gave everyone the time and hard drive space to agonise over their own Beach Boys record. The very capable could take forever over songs that didn't require forever, making blunt what once was sharp and urgent and polishing up what was always effluent. What should, in theory, allow an artist to produce something to perfection, just produces something dull. You can feel it only a few tracks in, ten minutes feeling like two weeks. 2 My work calendar’s Thought for the Day is the following: ‘If we don’t see things through the eyes of love, then we are more likely to have a distorted view of them’ I was about to open with a nice, economical ‘Grizzly Bear suck.’ but then I saw that and it gave me pause. Well…enough pause to write that out anyway. I’ve never actually met anyone who ‘loves’ Grizzly Bear despite associating with many people in my time who one would guess, from the cut of them, might well love Grizzly Bear. Honest to God, what’s to love? The gestures of musical intelligence are here - Grizzly Bear can count, even to the odd numbers, and can probably even play a few of the trickier Radiohead songs on guitar. The gestures of ‘authenticity’ are there - guitars presented like they were all take one in Bon Iver’s log cabin. But there is a pathetic barrenness about everything. The fancy rhythms and curtailed phrases savour of cold sophistry. The songs meander to no destination. The musicians transmit no sense of identity - not even, especially not, the singers. The vocals are helpfully double-tracked and filtered to make the lyrics difficult to hear but there is no hiding the fact that Grizzly Bear have nothing to say. ‘Look at us, we’re cool’ maybe. And people did and they were. That in itself wasn’t a phenomenon specific to the late noughties/early 2010s; the era now often remembered as peak ‘Hipster’. There have been bands playing that oul angle for as long as there have been bands and insecure people responding accordingly. There are bands like that still. Peak Hipster really did happen though and if this Grizzly Bear album genuinely ‘must’ be listened to then it is as a potent enough document of the artistic emptiness of that cultural moment. 1.5/5

Two Weeks, una canción que he escuchado mil veces ¡es de éste album! no lo sabía, me impresioné. Vibras de Luna Nueva, que son mis favoritas. Mis favoritas: Two Weeks, All We Ask, Cheerleader, Ready, Able,

Not unpleasant but really just background noise at best

Grizzly Bear is yet another band that I remember hearing on the radio but never followed up on. This is an interesting album; some tracks spare but not boring, some multilayered & intense with hails of swelling melodic stuff. The vocals sometimes remind me of the guy in Dirty Projectors, but the music is much less experimental than that, of course. I think this could grow on me with a second listen; at the moment it just feels like interesting background music. But who knows what the future will bring.

cool! A bit indie rock vibes. Starts off great but the album gets progressively boring…. No actually its cool. I like it.

flaccid

Chill album to listen to, not my kind of favourite listen

This is the kind of indie rock album I can appreciate more than I actually enjoy. 𝘝𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵 is clearly well crafted, with beautiful harmonies, detailed arrangements, and a lot of care put into every song. Everything sounds exactly as it should. The problem is that very little of it really stays with me. The album is pleasant from beginning to end, but it rarely surprises me or gives me a reason to come back. I can hear why people love it, but for me it ends up being a good indie record rather than a great one.

Remember loving this album when it came out but think I've moved on somehow. Two Weeks is a masterpiece still.

Still like this album, can appreciate how good it is, but only 3 stars

Really well produced and high quality across the board - at its best when it lets its hair down in the crescendos. Feel like it will grow on me but great for now..

Vibes. I dig it.

That’s a weird one to be sure. Didn’t hear much of anything interesting to be honest

Otro disco aclamado que sin embargo a mi no me pareció gran cosa entonces. NI este ni el siguiente e igualmente valorado Shields. Two weeks sí que es una gran canción. La mejor de su repertorio. Otro buen tema es While You Wait for the Others. All we ask , en la tradición de Macca. Fine for now es indie del bueno, con buen desarrollo y un punto de Fleet Foxes, en mi opinión. Cheerleader sigue con los mismos parámetros, buenas voces, coros, pop brillante, pero no termina de convencerme. Dory aún menos pero Ready,Able sí que me gusta. I live with you me parece la más floja del lote. Buen cierre con Foreground. Buen disco, pero hubo otros mejores: XX, The flaming lips, Animal Collective, Raveonettes, Prefab Sprout, Anthony, Pet Shop Boys...

Peak indie rock before the scene changed.

Different

2,6/5

Olvidable creo

Ba Or Ing!

Too stuffy and un-fun to properly enjoy, but "Two Weeks" is a big tune and it's all very nicely composed

Pretty vocals, boomy drums, and somewhat repetitive piano motifs. I felt torpedoed back to the early 2010s with this album, which was nice for the first 5 or so songs, but my mind wandered and the songs began to blur together after that. I can't think of a setting where I would want to listen to this entire album again, but one or two of the tracks stood out, particularly Southern Point and Dory. I liked the overall dreaminess, but it got boring quickly.

Disappointed in this album

Nemo reference

I don't think I'm aware of this artist, and it doesn't look like I recognize any of the tracks by title. So I'm going into this pretty much blind. This is strange and interesting, but I don't think this is something I'd listen to again. Something about it just isn't grabbing me. There are a few tracks where the drummer is doing some great work, but otherwise, this is overall just meh.

3⭐️/5 05.19.2026

Nothing interesting here. Just background music

I guess that I just don't like Chamber Pop very much.

This made me angry.

Escucháis de nuevo

Grizzly Bear was hot shit back in my youth. I wasn’t sure if I’d heard any of their songs, then “Two Weeks” got to its hook and I went “Oh, this song, right.” I will say that I remember seeing the cover of their next album ‘Shields’ absolutely everywhere in 2012, but whatever. That’s not what we’re here for right now. It is definitely a 2010s indie revival progenitor, already making it less derivative than the artists and albums in its wake. They seemed to have more ideas. Also reminded me of late-period Beatles at certain turns (“All We Ask”) and CSNY in their vocal arrangements (“Fine For Now”). Most of the songs have that same mid-tempo, considered chug to them. It is pretty enough but overstays its welcome. The dreamy, twinkly psychedelic folk rock can only go on so long before it becomes sleepy and lethargic. I’d be interested in exploring more of their stuff since they were so influential at the time when I first got into music, but I wasn’t terribly compelled by this one. It’s all a bit too precious for me.

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I've listened to this album many times over the years, and respect it, but it never really grabbed me in an emotional way. The sound and instrumentals arr all very technically good, and I feel like I should love it on paper, but there's something a bit washed out and distant about most of it. One of the standout tracks, Two Weeks, was great when it came out, but has now been licenced for so many ads that I now mainly associate it with banks and insurance companies. I hope they got well paid for it at least!

AUTOMATIC FIVE STARS. Two Weeks in particular has a very soft spot in my heart (it's one of—if not my favourite—songs of all time) but this whole album is incredible.

Really good for background music that you just play and you kinda listen to it and it sounds like something you would hear during a Road trip montage in a Disney movie

No sé como explicarlo, pero este álbum me subió mucho mi animo, me alivió mi enfermedad y me motivó bastante, que buena escucha

medio aburrido

I had hopes for this one after the first song. But it kinda just went on and I couldn't really get into it.

I really liked this album when it came out. I still think Two Weeks is a great capture of the sound of that period. However, the rest of the album has not held up for me. Going to go 2.7 on this one. Not horrible, but a fading tribute to 2009.

Booooring. If I was in the right mood, I think some of this has some interesting stuff going on, but as a whole it just might as well have put me to sleep. 3/10 Ho Hum

2010s core

My relationship to this album was a slow burn but eventually it caught fire and was engulfed in flames. I like my music sloppy and loud. I usually want to hear musicians playing at the edge of their ability, I want to hear signals of impending collapse if not fully breaking on tape. You get none of that with Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest — it's one of the most in-control and intentional sounding indie albums of the 00s. Actually, there may be more of those than I've counted, let's re-phrase: it's one of the most well-considered and restrained records of its time that's also not boring. While certainly subdued, this is a record whose adventurousness is self-assured and expressed not with fervor but with delicacy and exactitude. I doubt I'd have these feelings from the first listen so full-confession this review is based on my partner owning the album and listening to it frequently. Maybe I've just been too dismissive of too many quieter indie bands all this time? Possibly. But regardless Veckatimest pierced my defenses with laser-guided precision and that's what we're writing about today. Very nearly 5 stars.

Background noise. Pleasant, but completely forgettable.

Southern Point is a great opener. Reminds me of Animal Collective (fitting for grizzly bear). The last 15 seconds riff is cool. Fine for Now has some nice moments. The band sits in quiet lulls with poise. Fave Tracks: Southern Point, Two Weeks, Fine For Now 3.8/5

That was alright. I've listen to very similar things when I was a teen. A bit soothing, calming and relaxing. However, as I said, I might be overexposed to those kind of music so it's not really surprising to hear. Lots of similar fish in the sea.

Not for me

***paréntesis para el review de "unhalfbrikcing", de fairpoint convention. lo agrego acá porque se me fue escucharlo a tiempo, y cuando le fui a dar rate me di cuenta que no se pueden editar los reviews. me sorprendió la verdad, nunca había escuchado del grupo pero me gustó bastante. highlight del disco es "who knows where time goes?". me recordó a "when i die", de motherlode, por alguna razón. 3.5 estrellas pero lo bajé a 3. la verdad estoy looking forward a reescucharlo. ahora si, veckatimest: me gustaron tres canciones, incluyendo two bears, que todo el mundo la tiene guardada probablemente. dory, y while you wait for the others. 3 estrellas. siento que ya no vibeo tanto con este sonido indie como antes, pero igual es bueno, dont get me wrong.

hidastempoista tunnelmallista, laulaja tutun kuuloista. En tarkista mikä

Solid Indie album a few too many songs for my liking

Cool album cover, cool name, background music.

A nice and pleasant listen for my afternoon. Some of the later tracks were really nice, sort of a mellow, chill Flaming Lips kind of vibe. I'll go 4 stars here and may revisit this?

The album starts off sounding like Neil Young with a better voice. Then it takes a left turn and starts sounding like Neil Young with a better voice collaborating with The Flaming Lips. It ends up being a quite progressive album, but not in the "typical" sense of modern prog (frequently changing meters, long instrumental breaks, showy virtuosity, etc.) 4 stars.

Overall this sounds like a collection of songs I would quickly skip if they came up in my weekly Spotify Discover playlist. The opener Southern Point sounds very 70s in some way to me, and likewise Two Weeks sounds like the Beach Boys. I was interested to read the top 5-star review of this, which contains a lot of comments like "Marked by rhythmic intricacy, instrumental complexity, innovative chord structures, and elaborate vocal arrangements"; "Listen to the predominance of major seventh chords on “Southern Point”." This tells me that this is probably a very technically accomplished album and experts can probably get a lot out of it. I don't know anything about music, so I am rating based on my personal enjoyment, which I think is the only honest way to rate anything. As good as this may be from a skill standpoint, it leaves me cold and honestly a little bit irritated.

Boring as hell

It’s pleasant overall. I like what I’m hearing, but I will say I don’t think they do it better than anyone else so to speak. I’d rather listen to Pet Sounds or Pink Moon or something. It’s also overlong and wore out its welcome.

Medio embole

No roars, only snores.

Boring, lifeless, early '00s dreck. Wants to be Radiohead or Arcade Fire, fails at both.

Oh, so glad to find this here! Like meeting an old friend. Yeah, this one is hard for me. Haven’t listened to the full album in awhile. It doesn’t feel as “relevant” as it once did. But I was still glad to hear it all the way through, not just the “hits” that I still have on playlists. I saw a good deal of grumbling about its inclusion on the list in the other reviews. But you know, it really was of a time. I think I’m going a full 4, just for old times sake. Boolean rating: yes. It does belong here.

roar

3,999998

While I have quite a lot of nostalgia for "Two Weeks" and "Ready Able" from my high school days (right around when this album came out) and as a whole, it's a very well-made indie folk/rock record, absolutely dripping with the hipster vibes of the early 2010s. However, I can totally understand people questioning why the album as a whole deserves a spot on this list. It's fine enough, but arguably muddy and forgettable in certain spots.

A very forgettable album

This was new and refreshing. Great listen

11/05/26 nada a oferecer o tipo de música que estaria na trilha sonora de um filme mediano ou que vc pularia dps de ouvir 5 segundos em uma estação de rádio 2/5 / 4/10

I've never heard of this, but I already have low expectations of it. Of course, it's a generic 2000s indie rock album that sounds like every other 2000s indie rock album. The lyrics aren't really noteworthy, and neither are the actual songs. Nothing here is really all that great, but none of it is explicitly terrible. It's just background music, and that prevents it from being listworthy. This album is not important at all, and it has no legacy. So-and here comes the question I've asked too many times before- why is it on the list? What makes it stand out from other 2000s indie rock albums that didn't make the list?

Yesterday, I had "Southern Rock Opera" by Drive-By Truckers, which I criticized for looking back too far, for imitating over innovating. A more consistent person might criticize Grizzly Bear for its clear 1960s influences, reminiscent of The Zombies or CSNY. Lucky for Grizzly Bear, I really like that era of music, and I've always had a fondness for their sound. I don't think this album needed to be on this list, but I do like it, and there are plenty of sounds that modernize it. 4 stars is probably a bit generous, but it's what my heart wants, so I'm going with that.

One great songs, some other nice tracks, but not something I would return to.

Fairly decent. Two weeks is a very good song. 3*

Love the song Two Weeks but couldn't get into the rest of it at the time and on listens now. Soundtrack for a 2000s Brooklyn hipster.

Monotonous

very nice! sounds like twilight soudtrack to me 😂

interesting

Apparently this album was added in the 2011 version of this book, but I have access to the 2018 version where it is notably absent. My assumption is that critics in 2011 saw the explosion of indie inspired folk music hitting the charts and assumed that the Bush Era indie sound will stick around for more than a decade, but alas, this is not true. Within context, I do not think this album deserves to be on this list. It's not really doing anything incredibly different than other "indie" acts at this time, and by 2009, I would basically call this era over and done with. It had hit mainstream. Without context, this is a decent album! It's a little too "I'm so cool, listen to my breathy voice over deceptively complex instrumentation", but it's fun enough to listen to. I understand why it's so poorly received on this site, although I would encourage users that rate this album a 1 because "boring" to learn how to play/record music, you might be a little impressed afterwards.

Meh

Not as good as I remembered.

Bit boring to be honest. It was like a slightly less interesting version of The Flaming Lips meets Radiohead. Not for me.

A super nice surprise. I didn’t even know this artist.

Pretty good

What a remarkably dull album. You’ll recognise Two Weeks as a well sampled bit of music, but there really isn’t anything else of note here. The rest is just a meandering low key sound that would be fine as filler for a track or two on a good album, but 50 minutes of it really drags.

An enthralling mixture of indie, folk, and experimental music. Gorgeous melodies on songs like ‘While You Wait for the Others’. There’s very little to dislike about this album.

Had this very late-2000s indie folk album been about 30 minutes long rather than over 50, I'd have been inclined to give it 3 stars. However, given its duration I can only give it 2. It's very pretty background music, but it's quite simply not interesting enough to justify such a long runtime, especially when by far the best song, ‘Two Weeks’, is only track 2/12. I found myself increasingly bored as it floated along. Most songs are so lightweight they struggle to make any impact at all. It's quite similar to early Fleet Foxes, just not as good.

Don’t remember this band at all, but this is a very good album. Reminded me of The National in places, Gang Of Youths in others. Excellent.

We listened to this together outside in the hammock...despite the good vibes, both of us were pretty meh about it. Sounds like Fleet Foxes and once you heared one song, you've heard them all. Next!

Boring - meh.

Wanted to like this more than I did, very radio 6. A bit pretentious.

Nothing new. Maybe there was a time that this was more appealing to me, but it just sounds like generic sad-boy rock.

55 minutes of nothingness

The Good: We’ve got an anagram! The Bad: Finding out that it stands for “Mike’s Cat Vet”… The Ugly: Encountering a grizzly cat… in the wild… Fuck me, the intrawebs sure does make certain people [me] go into a rabbit hole of absurdities… I blame the album… and it’s fucking tittle… which, so I’ve been told, is of Wampanoag origins.. but nobody seems to know what it means… maybe, just maybe, it means Indie Rock? Critics loved this album… me… well, I didn’t hate it… just got a little tired of it after a while. I have to add that I started listening to this around 6:15am while working on a presentation… so the music was low, and my attention was on work… Shall I just shoot this one down the middle?… As it has been a massive challenge finding listenable music post 2000, I believe I should be nice and give it a 4* and listen to it again at some point… then, if I don’t like it, I will come back and drop it to 3*

Nope

I thought this was OK. Didn’t exactly get my blood pounding. I added “Two Weeks” to my playlist.

Nice

Omg what a snore. What a shame to make a 52-minute album with only one good song. Would've rather listened to Two Weeks 12 times. 2.5

I have never heard of this band, but this is why I wanted to try this generator. My streaming service just gives me more of the music I already know and it is boring. I liked this record. Will listen to more of their music.

No country for me

Late 2000s indie psychedelic folk. Polished but sleepy.

Some decent stuff but not very good

Favourite Songs: Southern Point Fine For Now Ready, Able

Surpassed by expectations and sounded nice but nothing special.

Not what I was expecting based on their name but I still found it to just be ok.

its exactly like The Suburbs. goes on. nothing notable. was bumpin in the first few songs.

This millennial burger place album really overstays its welcome

Ni muy muy ni tan tan 5/10

It was fine. Just background noise

It was better than I was expecting, but quickly became background music. Not for me. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ❌️ ★★★☆☆ (5/10) Total reviewed : 284 Already owned : 63 Purchased : 15 To buy : 3 Nope : 203

First I've heard of this band. Really liked it, quite dreamy

Carried by two weeks

This was a great album

If you liked indie rock in the late 2000s this is a tentpole album and most of it still holds up. While You Wait for the Others is haunting. Two Weeks is a bop. Drags at points in the middle but most of it was fun to listen to again.

This was fine as background noise. Nothing exciting or repulsive. 3/5

Definitely not for me. Didn’t get it.

I appreciate the Grizzly Bear has a very unique sound. This one's a good listen.

Not my cup of tea.

Track 1 is a very interesting song with great guitar work. 2 is kind of an indie classic. It's a good song. 6 is quit special. 7 has a cool chorus. 8 is my favorite so far. interesting harmony and arrangement. 11 feels out of place but it's beautifully weird and messy. Ends with a nice ballad. It's a good album. My favorites are the ones I mentioned above, the rest were not bad, bad didn't do much for me. But it was a good listen throughout (second half better than first). So I'll give it a flat 3.

Whatever you call this type of music - indie rock, post-punk, Brit shit - it is very, very clearly the editor's favorite. I'm about 1/3 of the way through, and about 1/3 of what I've heard falls into this generic indie rock with a hint of prog. It's become exceptionally monotonous and boring. I tried to challenge myself by naming a 4* album that didn't make the list for every 2* that did, and even that became tedious. Just slightly less tedious than listening to the entirety of this album. Influence 2. Hits 2. Quality 3. Intangibles 2. Guess what? Yup. It's a 2.

Not what I was expecting based on the single track but an interesting listen. It definitely echoes different prog rock bands with an interesting wistful theme.

A very strong album. mid 4s for me. A couple of the tracks are GOATs.

It's... fine?

Indie rock with jazz influences caught my ear from the first couple of seconds of the first song. Its a really good album with some excellent songs. At times it gets a bit to somber for my taste which makes me less likely to come back to it again.

To be honest, I completely forgot I’d even listened to this until I saw it staring back at me in my Spotify history. It’s the kind of record that feels like sitting in a stiff wooden church pew, meticulously hand crafted and technically "perfect," but so polite and understated that it frequently bleeds into the background. I get that people love the arrangements and songwriting, but for me, it felt more like a fancy lullaby than some mind-blowing experience. The good songs, like "Two Weeks," are catchy, but they're surrounded by a bunch of quiet, dull stuff. It's definitely an album for a specific mood, but that mood is so dreamy and calm that if you're not paying attention, it's gone. I can see the cool production and everything, but it was too chill and didn't really stick with me.

not my thing, doesn't interest me more than background music that I ignore

A bit too avante garde

Really mopey album that does nothing particularly well. This is the kind of music you hear when you're about to pay $20 for a burger that's served to you on a newspaper. "Two Weeks" is catchy and the only reason this isn't a 1.

1.42

Years ago, Two Weeks was my introduction to Grizzly Bear. It’s been a consistent and enduring favorite since. This was my first trip through the full album and I enjoyed thoroughly. Two weeks is the best though.