All your useless pretensions are weighing on my time

Some really random videos from Grizzly Bear. One can debate the ubiquity (and/or sellingoutness, I'm talking to you, internet critics) of Grizzly Bear in the comments. I think a commercial or two is bound to happen if you make good songs, so I don't have a problem with it. They do get a lot of hype, but again, as long as the music holds up...


"Deep Blue Sea" - not a music video, just a performance. You know it's going to have the possibility of being an amazing song if there's someone holding an autoharp. Amazing or terrible. This one is amazing.




"Deep Sea Diver" - fairly straightfoward, video-gamey.



"While You Wait for the Others" - What with the fencing mask and all the animals and etc, this video seems to embody the whole "too hipster/too much hype/trying to hard" problem. The music is good, but there's a lot of stuff thrown in and going on but nothing really happens. Although that fits with the atmospheric nature of their work.




This video for "Knife" manages to be slow and strange and creepy in an odd vaguely Star Trek/Planet of the Apes way and I'm not entirely sure what all goes on and/or why. But it's also kind of mesmerizing.





One of the guys in Grizzly Bear is also in Department of Eagles - who take the concept of "weird, mildly unsettling, and mesmerizing" and really go for it in this epic video for the great song "No One Does It Like You" featuring dancing toy soldiers(?) and ghosties.