Ran into the Grizzly Bear pack at the sold-out Spoon/Sound Team show in Austin’s La Zona Rosa a few weeks ago, the night before the Austin City Limits Festival began, and Chris Taylor was telling me about the greatness of Jay Reatard, the Memphis rocker. I quickly returned volley with The Bowerbirds and we were even. It could have kept going like that all night. That’s just an anecdote. All that needs to be said about Grizzly Bear is superfluous in context and nature — everyone’s done it all, but that’s not anything that should stop the maddened ravings about these guys and their inventive givings that keep on giving. They stack harmonies upon themselves until they nearly topple from exhaustion and lavish gorgiosity. They feel unstoppable and their bottomless ability to summon such grand emotion is just that. It’s evident again on the upcoming extended player of new and unreleased songs, alternate versions, original versions and covers from CSS, Band of Horses and Bradford Cox’s solo project Atlas Sound (by the way, the cover story in The Fader about Cox is outstanding and — spoiler alert — involves some Frenching at the end between Cox and one of the members of The Black Lips) that they cannot be slowed. What we need to know is how much for that tapestry that hangs behind them in fire-based colors in that band/family photo? It looks like a dream catcher. They’re still out with Beach House (the band that Daytrotter readers love more than any other) and that’s a great, great thing.

Free Songs: Grizzly Bear

Grizzly Bear Feature

Grizzly Bear gets Lasso’d

While you’re at it, why don’t you go and see these live dates this week and next with Beach House