Yet Again: Grizzly Bear Expands Latest Album with Demos and B-Sides

September 18, 2013 By Mike Duquette — No Comments

Acclaimed Brooklyn rockers Grizzly Bear broke a three-year gap between albums with last year’s beloved Shields. This fall, they will deepen the experience of that album with a double-disc, demo-packed expanded edition.

After a brief band hiatus following the promotion of 2009’s Veckatimest, the quartet began sessions for Shields in Marfa, Texas, before ultimately moving back to the same Cape Cod property that gave 2006’s sophomore album Yellow House its name. The band began to write and record more collaboratively than ever, while still maintaining the same densely produced, richly harmonic sound audiences had come to expect. Shields ultimately gave the band its highest U.S. chart placement at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, and landed high on critics’ year-end best-of lists from Pitchfork to Rolling Stone.

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Shields Expanded will feature an eight-track bonus disc featuring several of the tracks from the Marfa sessions that were ultimately shelved. (One of those, “Will Calls,” is the lead single for the project and can be heard above.) Three remixes, including one released on a Record Store Day-exclusive single in 2013, will round out the package. Those who already bought the album can experience the tracks separately as Shields B-Sides, a separate 12″ record to be released alongside the expanded set. (Shields B-Sides will include the five demos and B-sides, with the remixes offered as free digital downloads.)

Shields Expanded and Shields B-Sides are due out on November 12. Amazon links are not yet live, but the track lists are below.

Shields Expanded (Warp, 2013)

Disc 1: Original LP (released as Warp Records LP 229, 2012)

Sleeping Ute
Speak in Rounds
Adelma
Yet Again
The Hunt
A Simple Answer
What’s Wrong
gun-shy
Half Gate
Sun in Your Eyes

Disc 2: Shields B-Sides

Smothering Green
Taken Down (Marfa Demo)
Listen and Wait
Everyone I Know (Marfa Demo)
Will Calls (Marfa Demo)
Sleeping Ute (Nicolas Jaar Remix) (released on Warp Records 12″ WAP346, 2013) *
A Simple Answer (Liars Remix) *
Gun-Shy (Lindstrom Remix) (download-only exclusive, 2012) *

* digital download-only on Shields B-Sides standalone vinyl

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Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, having written at and worked for all three major catalogue music labels and contributing to Allmusic, Billboard, Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Classic Rock. He's penned liner notes for Verve, Chess, Mondo and Soul Music Records.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife, a cat named Ravioli, twin daughters and a large yet tasteful collection of music.