Grizzly Bear Blue Valentine - Soundtrack

• Granny Dinner - Grizzly Bear
• In Ear Park - Department of Eagles
• Easier (Instrumental) - Grizzly Bear
• Lullabye (Instrumental) - Grizzly Bear
• I Live With You (Instrumental) - Grizzly Bear
• Foreground (Instrumental) - Grizzly Bear
• Dory (Instrumental) - Grizzly Bear
• You Always Hurt The Ones You Love – Ryan Gosling
• You and Me – Penny & the Quarters
• Shift (Alternate Version) - Grizzly Bear
• Alligator (feat. Zach Condon, Dave Longstreth & Amber Coffman) [Choir Version] – Grizzly B
• Easier - Grizzly Bear
• Lullaby – Grizzly Bear
• I Live With You - Grizzly Bear
• Foreground - Grizzly Bear

As reported on Prefix, in 2009 Grizzly Bear was tapped to provide the music for the Blue Valentine soundtrack. The match was appropriate given the band's mastery of dark moods and the film's tone of being the relationship equivalent to Dancer in the Dark. When the film's release date was pushed up the band made the deadline by contributing mostly existing material, alternate takes and instrumentals. In what other job are you allowed to do that? Rounding out the set was a song by Grizzly Bear member Daniel Rossen's band Department of Eagles, an Eccentric Soul nugget (Penny & the Quarters' sweet and dusty "You and Me") and actor Ryan Gosling's rendition of the pop standard "You Always Hurt the Ones You Love."

Abstract by Dan Nishimoto