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Grizzly Bear release holiday video reinterpreting 'Shields' as smooth piano based album

by Tyler Munro

Grizzly Bear managed to stop whining about the Grammy’s long enough to release this new, hilarious holiday video, which reduces their un-nominated (but still great) 2012 album Shields to solo piano (and a bit of sax and vocals).

Singer Edward Droste unveiled the video yesterday on Twitter, writing, “Think we sound smooth? Well shit just got smoother. Seasons Greetings from myself and the Grizz gang 2 u!”

The video itself isn’t much of one: instead, it goes for pastiche, reducing itself to a slideshow of random images, like dogs playing cards, donut-buned cheese burgers, classic paintings, sailboats and other such nonsequiturs.