The result is four stories that they happily share, as plates of snails and oak leaf, kohlrabi, and pea and ticklemore gather around us.Įd Droste of Grizzly Bear performs on stage during Falls Festival in Lorne, Australia. Unsure as to when they would ever make music together again, the band members went their own way for a while.
“My personality is not well suited to the entertainment industry.” As for Daniel Rossen, the band’s introspective guitarist and vocalist, he wasn’t even sure he wanted to be involved with music at all: “I was very down on it,” he admits. “Thank God it didn’t happen while we were on tour or making a record.” Drummer Chris Bear moved to Long Island and became a father – a joyous experience, he says, but one that couldn’t help but alter his perspective on the world, “or even the hope that we still have a world”. “I had to take a year out of everything in order to clear my head and deal with the legal processes,” he says. Singer Ed Droste had moved to Los Angeles with his husband, only for them to divorce shortly afterwards. Not just because the writing, touring and promotion had created friction between them – although they admit it inevitably had – but because their lives were all changing dramatically. After four albums of expertly crafted, cerebral, pastoral, indie rock – two of which had made the US Top 10 – they all needed a break. But it turns out he’s not the only Grizzly Bear member who has been on a curious sabbatical since they finished touring 2012’s Shields. Such tasks don’t sound like the most relaxing way of spending your between-albums break. It was at the latter place – today’s interview venue – that he helped scrub clean the bloodied organs that have since been cut, grilled and served for us with green beans and pickled walnuts. The band’s bassist and producer is referring to the past few years, during which he has not only written his own cookbook – 20 Dinners – but taken up apprenticeships at some impressively high-end restaurants: one was Copenhagen’s Noma, which boasts two Michelin stars and has been hailed as the world’s greatest before that he put in shifts at St John Bread and Wine in London. Taylor isn’t talking about some past life working in a butchers or abattoir.
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