Grizzly Bear's third album sets a relaxing moodand sticks to it.
Harmony is a kind of optimism, expressed in the belief that several voices can do a job better than one. That's partly why Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest (named after an uninhabited 16-acre island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts) is a lock to be the sunniest album of the year. All four members sing equally well, and when they weave their high, sweet voices around the others' sometimes in brief and surprising swells, sometimes for the length of entire songs you can actually hear their faith in one another. It's adorable. ( Watch TIME's video about Grizzly Bear's new album. )
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