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… More
This band has been a great reminder for me recently of how truly subjective music (and art in general, I suppose) is and how there's so much out there that I can just not connect with independent of whether it's "good" or not, but keeping an open mind and revisiting a work or an artist at a different point in their career when I am at a different point in my life can be rewarding, fulfilling, joyous, and/or important. And the glory of this particular occasion is that now I have a 5-album discography, and hopefully many more to come, waiting for me. Music... I Recommend It.