Grizzly Bear Confirm First Album In Three Years And Announce Tour

Grizzly Bear will release their first album in three years on September 18th via Warp Records. Recorded over the better part of a year, the album represents the band’s most charged and concise collection of music to date and follows 2009’s critical and commercial breakthrough, ‘Veckatimest.’ The album title and other details will be revealed soon. Hear a new track here at the bottom of this page.

Grizzly Bear will also kick off an international tour on September 16, playing dates in the UK in London, Manchester and Glasgow, as well as other cities.

Grizzly Bear UK Tour Dates
28/8 – Cambridge, UK @ The Junction
29/8 – Nottingham, UK @ Albert Hall
31/8 – Stradbally, Ireland @ Electric Picnic Festival
1/9 – Salisbury, UK @ End of the Road Festival at Larmer Tree Gardens
17/10 – Gateshead, UK @ The Sage Gateshead
18/10 – Manchester, UK @ Academy
20/10 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowlands
21/10 – Coventry, UK @ Warwick Arts Centre
22/10 – London, UK @ Brixton Academy
For more info on the tour and international dates, click HERE

‘Veckatimest’ debuted at #8 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the Billboard Indie chart in 2009, and was one of the year’s most lauded releases. It ranked #1 on the NPR Listener’s Poll and Top 10 on year-end lists in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Pitchfork, SPIN, NME, Uncut, Clash, Rough Trade Shops and many more. In March 2012, The Wall Street Journal’s Jim Fusilli declared it “one of the best rock discs of this century so far.”

Tracklisting:
1. Sleeping Ute
2. Speak In Rounds
3. Adelma
4. Yet Again
5. The Hunt
6. A Simple Answer
7. What’s Wrong
8. gun-shy
9. Half Gate
10. Sun In Your Eyes

What: Grizzly Bear
When: Tuesday 28 August – Monday 22 October
Where: UK Tour
Price: Prices vary depending on venue
Tickets: www.grizzly-bear.net