After a five-year absence, Grizzly Bear are gearing up to release their fifth album, which has yet to be named. On Thursday night, the quartet released the first song from the album, “Three Rings.”
The band, now based on the West Coast after years in Brooklyn, has been teasing the album with a series of cryptic teaser videos, They also launched a new Instagram account, featuring psychedelic images the name of a different city attached to each.
The follow-up to 2012’s Shields is tentatively planned for a late-summer release.
Hey all. Thanks to everyone for sticking with us as we navigate the wide world of modern social media album rollouts. The promotional journey is just beginning! Weeeee!
Here’s a track from our new record. We feel like it’s a good introduction to the album, a good starting point, and we are proud of it. As you may know we’ve been working on this thing for a long time, after a long time away, and we are finally at the finish line. We’ve had a lot of fun making this one and we are excited to get back out into the world again and play some shows and all the rest!
More info to come. Don’t know exactly in what order, but it is sure to be a slow and painful drip of minor details, spanning months, culminating in the release of a new record of which you’ve probably already heard half the songs, by which point you may or may not have lost interest and moved on and forgotten what we were doing in the first place. We appreciate your patience and support! We love y’all and thank you again for hanging around this dusty page for these years, it’s going to be a lot more active soon! It truly means the world to us. WELP! 
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Grizzly Bear
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