Daniel Rossen

★★★★ You Belong There WARP. CD/DL/LP Grizzly Bear singer goes it alone. Chamber-pop artisans of American indie in the first decade of this century, Grizzly Bear’s current status is uncertain, with co-frontman Ed Droste having departed to become a therapist in 2020. The band’s other singer Daniel Rossen, however, remains nobly committed to the Grizzly Bear aesthetic. This debut solo album is as ornate as 2009’s outstanding Veckatimest, with Rossen now playing almost all the buccaneering acoustic guitars, cascading piano lines, cellos and woodwind himself (old bandmate Chris Bear returns, on drums). Fleet Foxes’

Shore, on which Rossen guested, is a good reference point for You Belong There; a sort of folk rock baroque, grandiose but not flamboyant, that sits in the space between Paul Simon and Van Dyke Parks. Celia, in particular, is a beauty, not least because Rossen seems perpetually on the verge of slipping into Surf’s Up. John Mulvey