LIMITED EDITION OXBLOOD 2LP VINYL GATEFOLD RE-ISSUE
Release Date: 17th October 2025
Grizzly Bear are back with their first album in five years since 2012's Shields. It may have been sometime but this is a classic Grizzly Bear record and is arguably their most upfront and accessible. However Painted Ruins is by no means a passing breeze and as is always the case with these guys the more listens you put in - the more rewarding the record becomes with it's lushous layer-upon-layer. And for what are beautiful songs on the surface each track has it's darkness nibbling on the edges and in the underbelly as a reflection of the modern political and social times we find ourselves in.
"Grizzly Bear release their first album in five years Painted Ruins produced by band member Chris Taylor. Painted Ruins fits the current political mood, it's an album of songs beautiful on the surface, but with darkness nibbling on all sides; hope and despair on an endless see-saw. It's also a record of thirty something friends, estranged by both geography and navigating the adult territory of marriage, divorce and parenthood, fighting through separation to find the common ground that once and still exists. It's political and personal and the best Grizzly Bear album in ages."
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