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This is one of 2009's big ones, kids. On May 26, Warp will release the long-awaited follow-up to Yellow House, the breakout album from Grizzly Bear, Brooklyn's finest purveyors of cavernous whisper-sigh experimental rock. Neoclassical composer Nico Muhly and Beach House singer Victoria Legrand both contributed.

Last week, we reported the title: Veckatimest, named after a small, uninhabited island off the coast of Massachusetts. And today, they've revealed the album cover (which can be viewed right up there) and tracklist (see below). Check back early next week for an interview with frontbear Ed Droste about the album.

The band has a busy year coming up. This weekend, they've got a New Yorker-sponsored show with (seriously) Gabriel Byrne coming up at Brooklyn's Galapagos Art Space. On February 28, they'll play the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, who will play some arrangements that Muhly wrote specifically for the show. Also on the radar: SXSW, Bonnaroo, and a to-be-announced nationwide club tour.

Veckatimest:

01 Southern Point
02 Two Weeks
03 All We Ask
04 Fine for Now
05 Cheerleader
06 Dory
07 Ready, Able
08 About Face
09 Hold Still
10 While You Wait for the Others
11 I Live With You
12 Foreground