“McDonald also echoed Jay-Z’s “what the indie rock movement is doing right now is very inspiring” angle. He hears a musical bond between the Grizz’s intricately filigreed chamber pop and his own past work: “When I was with the Doobies, the style of music was that we all went over the falls with chord progressions, trying to make things as complex and interconnected as possible. The punk movement swung towards being as primitive as possible, but now it’s back to where these guys are good musicians. I never thought that would come back around, but it has.”
McDonald added, “I think I could be doing the same thing— trying to make those ethereal records, where there’s the song and the arrangement, but there’s something in between and you get sucked in.”
You have to love any sentence that starts out with “When I was with the Doobies…”
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— Pitchfork: Michael McDonald Spills About Working With Grizzly Bear
September 01, 2009, 7:50pm
