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.
