Grizzly Bear Working on New Music, Ed Droste Discusses "More Adventurous" New Direction

Grizzly Bear‘s Ed Droste sat down for a revealing interview with The Standard about his personal life (via Stereogum). He also discussed the current state of his band, saying they’ve started working on new music. Apparently, the band are heading in a different aesthetic direction.

“We’re feeling more adventurous with the sonic directions, changing it up a little bit—not, like, a techno dance album,” he said. “It’s in the beginning stages. Only a couple songs have started to take shape and it’s gotta be like, a good dozen or so before we get the picture.”

He also noted that the band are now split between coasts—Droste and Chris Taylor live in L.A., Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen live in New York. He called the long-distance songwriting process “more fractured”. “I would be lying if I said it didn’t cause great anxiety,” he says. “When I’m stressed about it, I have to remember that every time we try to do a new album I have huge anxiety. Every time it’s like, ‘Woah, that was a crazy process, we have to do something different.’”

Grizzly Bear’s last album Shields was released in 2012. 

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