Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Critic Score
Based on 15 reviews
2006 Ratings: #61 / 732
User Score
Based on 531 ratings
2006 Rank: #62
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
AllMusic

Yellow House is a beautiful album in its own right, and required listening not just for fans of Horn of Plenty, but for anyone who enjoys ambitious, creative music with an emotional undercurrent.

90
No Ripcord

It flourishes with the warm psychedelic rays that penetrate its forest canopy; sometimes charged and almost always sentimentally musty. Like a home ripe with the memories of a hundred lives, Yellow House is constantly seeping with new confessions from all of its sun touched walls.

90
Sputnikmusic

The album as a whole is one complex, yet simple and effective work. It may seem repetitive or boring, but if you take time to travel through from start to finish, it is that perfect “mood” album.

87
Pitchfork

Beyond production, Grizzly Bear have stepped up their songwriting in every way, assembling melodies that proceed in a logical fashion but never sound overused or overly familiar.

86
Coke Machine Glow

The melodies are entrancing, made even more intriguing by their submergence within the reverb, together resulting in an album whose scope and sound are impossible to ignore.

80
Tiny Mix Tapes

Grizzly Bear are an Animal Collective that decided to go more intelligible and accessible instead of running naked through the woods on five hits of sunshine acid while screaming in tongues.

80
PopMatters

This is a big album: big-hearted, epic in scope and ambition, emotionally all-encompassing and yet somehow personal and quietly moving.

80
Under the Radar
This isn't a folk record by any means, but it's the one Grizzly Bear should have been making all along.
80
The Skinny

Chilled out, stirring, challenging and eclectic: Grizzly Bear are not inhibited by genre and neither should their listeners be.

80
The Guardian

Yellow House isn't an album to dip into; instead you dive in and sink to the bottom, at once drenched in emotion and uplifted.

80
Uncut
The production is more sophisticated, the arrangements more intricate, the melodies and harmonies more complex.
80
Prefix
The attention to detail, the avoidance of crisp production, the resonance of the instruments and voices all contribute to the depth of the music and its ability to penetrate through to the listener in an almost raw and pure state.
70
SPIN

The group, now a quartet, get more expansive - and more pop - on their second album, even making space for multitracked Beach Boys harmonies.

60
Q Magazine
Out of step with the modern world.
40
Mojo
There's little discernable rhyme or reason holding it all together.
MontyDog123
70

First thank you to @MacThe49er for the recommendation! Also I couldn't post a review last 2 days because I was travelling but I'm back now so I can make some reviews again. So I've heard Mac (the guy who recd me this) going on about this album before and that combined with the pretty high user score and must hear title aswell got me very interested in what I would think about this album. Like I've really never heard of this album or the people who made it before. I didn't know the genre or ... read more

Host
80

Me when 20 heavily armed geckos enter my house:

creative_name
90

2006 albums (7/10)

Shocking how a grizzly bear made a better album than all of Lil Uzi Vert's albums combined 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Best song: Central and Remote
Worst song: Reprise

larkwashere
96

short review-
holy shit this is beautiful. long form review coming i swear (as soon as i'm done with discog dive stuff). how was i sleeping on this for so long. give this a listen now.

Spamman
90

This album constructs this pristine world of cabins in dark woods and abandoned mansions on tops of hills.

This is not a happy world, the songs are often about the way poverty destroys one’s mental state or how a life of extravagance is unfulfilling.

“Little Brother” somehow manages to make a banjo sound pretty and then mixes it with these heavy drums and sounds of birds to create a beautiful wall of sound.

“Easier” pours layers upon layers of vocal harmonies on ... read more

MontyDog123
70

First thank you to @MacThe49er for the recommendation! Also I couldn't post a review last 2 days because I was travelling but I'm back now so I can make some reviews again. So I've heard Mac (the guy who recd me this) going on about this album before and that combined with the pretty high user score and must hear title aswell got me very interested in what I would think about this album. Like I've really never heard of this album or the people who made it before. I didn't know the genre or ... read more

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Track List

1Easier
3:43
90
2Lullabye
5:14
90
3Knife
5:14
88
4Central and Remote
4:54
88
5Little Brother
6:24
83
6Plans
4:16
83
7Marla
4:56
78
8On a Neck, On a Spit
5:46
90
9Reprise
3:19
84
10Colorado
6:14
86
Total Length: 50 minutes

Year End Lists

#8/Pitchfork
#9/Cokemachineglow
#79/Paste
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