| Sleeping Ute | |
| Cover: | Sleeping Ute (Front Cover).png |
| Border: | yes |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Grizzly Bear |
| Album: | Shields |
| Released: | June 5, 2012 |
| Recorded: | Marfa, Texas, 2011 |
| Length: | 4:35 |
| Label: | Warp |
| Producer: | Chris Taylor |
| Prev Title: | While You Wait for the Others |
| Prev Year: | 2009 |
| Next Title: | Yet Again |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
"Sleeping Ute" is a song by American indie rock band Grizzly Bear, and the first single from the band's fourth studio album, Shields (2012). The song features lead vocals by guitarist Daniel Rossen.[1] [2] [3]
Along with Shields (2012) second single, "Yet Again", "Sleeping Ute" was recorded during the band's initial recording sessions in Marfa, Texas. Vocalist and guitarist Daniel Rossen stated, "["Sleeping Ute"] was actually the oldest track in terms of when the song was written, and it's one of the only songs on the record that I wrote alone before coming to the band with it. That and "Yet Again" are the two songs that were done kind of separately from the band, a long time ago. "Ute" was one of the first songs we put down that we felt really good about."[4]
Bassist and producer Chris Taylor stated, "I wanted the track to really open up in a way that felt very unhinged, like anything was possible. It's just one of those things: the myopic, to the kaleidoscopic, to the explosive."[4]