Daniel Rossen albums

2022

You Belong There - 75%

I feel like half of these songs are amazing, especially the first two and the showstopping "Unpeopled Space" and "The Last One", these songs twist and turn melodies inside out like the best of a more timid Built to Spill. but the other songs take some....getting used to. The longer songs work for the most part with "I'll Wait for Your visit" with the stops and starts of different parts, the aimlessness of "Keeper and Kin" is very charming. But everything else comes off as eccentric filler. Sad to say sense his other song writer in Grizzly Bear Ed Droste is no longer doing music, but these two songwriters complimented each other very well and the best songs on You Belong There would have made a great half of a Grizzly Bear LP. Still, if you are craving more of that band half of them if not more are here and its a nice familiar sound- Rossen sprawling acoustic style is very unique.

Best Songs: Unpeopled Space, Shadow In the Frame, The Last One