In Ear Park
by Department of Eagles
Added 2008-10-07 00:00:00Z
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Avg rating: 7.8 | 29 plays | 4 reviews
Daniel Rossen actually recorded as Department of Eagles (with NYU roommate Fred Nicolaus) prior to joining early-2000s indie wunderkinds Grizzly Bear. The pair released the delicately lovely, if uneven, THE COLD NOISE in 2003. For its sophomore record two years afterward, the pair joined up with bassist/producer Chris Taylor and Grizzly Bear drummer Chris Bear in search of a fuller sound. The plan came together brilliantly: IN EAR PARK blends a piano bar conviviality with the kinetic chaos of an avant-garde jazz space for an elegant,rapturous record. While the band enters with a drizzle of lightly swirling pianos on the melodic title track, it is just as liable to break into multi-chapter orchestral thunder, as on the complex "Around the Bay." Meanwhile, the spiraling, borderline-Vaudevillian "Teenagers" conjures up John Lennon at his most playfully lo-fi. While Rossen's vocals certainly possess a whiff of preciousness, there's a raging loneliness (a la Brian Wilson) behind his echoing whisper, an air of hovering storm clouds--a large part of what makes IN EAR PARK so compelling.
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