Veckatimest

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Grizzly Bear

I was never as "into" Grizzly Bear as some of my contemporaries but if you weren't around the "indie rock scene" in 2009 you should understand that their first two albums were massive; this one got a 9.0 and a "Best New Music" designation from Pitchfork, undoubtedly the American tastemaker of the moment

Anyway at some point after I got my first iPhone I was putting some work into setting up custom ringtones which you did by creating m4a files, renaming them to 'm4r', importing them into iTunes, then (via a USB-to-30-pin-adapter cable) sending them to the phone. I chose the opening 30 seconds of "Two Weeks" as one of those and it became my morning alarm sound. It still is years later and sometimes when I hear that song come on in a restaurant or whatever I have a brief moment where my brain just collapses in on itself.

Listened to the full album this morning for the first time in ages while making breakfast & catching up on email. Not bad!