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Two Weeks (Tomato Remix) - Grizzly Bear vs. Jay-Z
It’s fall, the leaves are turning golden and ruby, the cool breeze is filling the air, so that means it’s time for Grizzly Bear! However being in the city, there is always need for some hip-hop, so why not combine both! Here’s the perfect song for autumn in the urban jungle, Grizzly Bear meets Jay-Z. I love mash-ups of indie folk music with hip-hop, it’s a match made in hipster heaven (a.k.a. Brooklyn).
“I’m from rags to riches, niggas I ain’t dumb. I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain’t one.”
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Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
A little more than two weeks is all I have until my summer vacation officially begins. Two Weeks was my summer 2009 theme song, and I can’t believe I haven’t written about Grizzly Bear and their album Veckatimest at all! I am appalled that have ignored writing about one of my favorite bands and all-time favorite album for so long. I absolutely fell in love with song about a year ago and I’m still in love with it. I just love this song for two reasons. One, it has this old-school folk vibe, a very vintage quality to it. Two, it has chanting. I have an obsession with songs that have chanting and non-lyrical vocals. Something about a chant brings me in and automatically causes me to sing along. This song feels like a dream, one of those dreams you wake up from and immediately you just want to head right back to sleep so you can keep on dreaming.
Last year I went to see Grizzly Bear live in concert. It was a free outdoor in the Brooklyn Waterfront in New York’s most hippest neighborhood, Williamsburg. As Grizzly Bear was playing with the New York skyline in the background the sun was setting. I have to say that the combination of Grizzly Bear’s dreamy music, the beautiful summer sun set, and the impressive New York City skyline was one of the most heavenly, and most probably spiritual, experiences I ever had. I’m definitely going to see Grizzly Bear again this summer, I won’t miss another NYC show of theirs for the world.
“Think of all the ways
Momentary phase
Just like yesterday
I told you I would stay”
