A Frame-By-Frame Guide to Grizzly Bear's Wondrous Holiday Video

While most indie bands callously ignore their adoring fan bases around the holiday season, Ed Droste and Grizzly Bear have given us all that we could have ever asked for: a dazzling seven-minute montage of stock photos and well-wishes promoting their latest album. Accompanying the evocative images are expansive, piano-only renditions of some of the standout tracks on Shields. It isn’t difficult to let the mesmerizing stream of juxtapositions carry you away into a wondrous—but still a little confusing—world of holiday delights, so we’ve broken it down, frame-by-frame, allowing you can enjoy Grizzly Bear’s gift in moderation. If you should want to view the video in its unimpeded entirety, click here.

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