Most of Grizzly Bear's album Yellow House was recorded in the (ramshackle) house of vocalist Ed Droste. Although the arrangements are fairly complex, and production is at times painstaking, it is still very much imbued with the feel of that house. So the album title is fitting.
Today's song of the day – Marla (download mp3 via YouSendIt) – is particularly interesting, having been written not by the band, but by Droste's great aunt – a "failed musician that [died] at an early age in the 1940s".
I'm not sure how many other bands have covered songs by deceased great aunts. Any offers?
Anyhow, this is rather a lovely, atmospheric, wearily melancholic song.
Listen to the creaks of the piano stool – and the woolly-yet-gongy tones of a damp old piano. There's a very nice subtle string arrangement, and all the ambient touches and subtly-mixed effects and sounds that are actually so hard to capture.
Beautiful shivery strings at 2.17 (and the way in which the figure is echoed by the piano subsequently).
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Bloody hell, this is beautiful. I wish I had such an interesting family.
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