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Grizzly Bear Announce New Album and Share New Single “Mourning Sound”

'Painted Ruins,' the follow-up to 2012's 'Shields,' is out August 18.

A dozen or so short Instagram teasers later and here we are: Grizzly Bear have announced a new album, Painted Ruins, out August 18. The news comes alongside the confirmation of a first tour in four years and a new single in "Mourning Sound," a warm, synthetic track with Ed Droste and Daniel Rossen sharing lead vocals. By Grizzly Bear's standards, it's a catchy pop song, following a far simpler path than already-released Painted Ruins cut "Three Rings." You can listen to the track at the top of the page.

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Explaining the band's absence to Zane Lowe in an interview on Beats 1 this morning, Droste said that life overtook the band after touring for 2012's Shields. "I wouldn't even say it was deliberate or a conscious decision to stop it per se," he said. "It was just sort of like, the things that happen in life came at a lot of people. Good and bad: marriages, divorces, children. Everyone just had to focus on themselves for a moment and not just ignore home reality. And straighten house before we were back in the right place to all get back together. And when we did, it was even more exciting and fun to work together."

Multi-instrumentalist Chris Taylor also explained the album's title to Lowe in typically mysterious terms. "Dan [Rossen] was describing it as painting over something that's falling apart," he said. "And that can go into a variety of channels from there[…] It's not meant to be referring to anything specific."

Take a look at the Painted Ruins cover art and tracklist below and find Grizzly Bear's tour dates here.

1. Wasted Acres
2. Mourning Sound
3. Four Cypresses
4. Three Rings
5. Losing All Sense
6. Aquarian
7. Cut-Out
8. Glass Hillside
9. Neighbors
10. Systole
11. Sky Took Hold

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