In Ear Park is not a tide-over record, one to keep your patience at bay, while you await the next release from Grizzly Bear.  Its hard not to connect the two projects though; this Department of Eagles album is smudged with the fingerprints of Grizzly Bear and the subtleties of sound, the ghoulish background vocals, and dedication to seventh chords that made Yellow House such a delight.  Though it hints at a California sound, as filtered through Randy Newman or Van Dyke Parks, In Ear Park is far from the sunshine popping playfulness that seems to bracket most music under the California banner.  The result is much moodier, like a fog-ridden drive down Highway One before sunrise, when the cramped California still feels far away.

I Guess I’m Floating has two new live tracks.

[mp3] Department of Eagles - No One Does Like You

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