Listening: Freak-folk us to dreamland, Grizzly Bear

Saw Grizzly Bear at the Troubadour the other night and, yes, their music is a weirdo kind of dreamy thing: atmospheric, doo-wop-ey, long and short, folksy, raining down gently from lots of different times and places. You sort of want them to sing you to sleep every night, by a fireplace. Alec Hanley Bemis in this LA Weekly interview calls their latest album "Yellow House" a "grower." Here are pictures from the Troubadour show by David Greenwald. (He also has shots of Foreign Born, who opened. Seen them before. They're brilliant; like their spacey raw rock sounds make your chest open up a little.) Check out this really amazing clip of Grizzly Bear doing their song "Knife" on the soggy streets of Paris. Without instruments: