#379: grizzly bear - two weeks (2009)

the unofficial video for the unofficially prettiest song of the year will replace your organs with sandcastles, bouncy balls and gardenias.

nowadays there are lots of tunes with pretty beach boys harmonies, but this is the only one whose harmonies sound like fingerpaint. sasha frere-jones calls it a doo-wop quartet launching into orbit, which is a very beautiful way of saying that the best band in brooklyn has made something that’s better than i know there’s an answer but a tad worse than wouldn’t it be nice.

update: the newly-released official video is a massive nightmare. what it needs is pounds less creepiness and seven quarts more albert lamorisse.