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The debut Fleet Foxes album from has been praised in just about every mainstream music outlet over the last couple months, and it was only just released a few weeks ago. Their comforting mix of electric folk and Brian Wilson-styled pop has bloggers swooning left and right over the honest, down-home harmonies that these Seattle twenty-somethings create. They will be accompanied by the girl/boy harmonies of their neighbors The Dutchess and the Duke, and the instrumental rock of Balmorhea.
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For a band that often sees contemporary Seattle mainstay Ben Gibbard among their circle of musicians, Fleet Foxes draws from an older sound.more at spin.com
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Something’s rustling in the pines of the Northwest. The past few years have given rise to a crop of bands from the Upper Left Coast that owe as much to Appalachian folk ballads as West Coast pop, refashioning mountain minstrelsy as indie fodder. Fleet Foxes emerge as the best.
Posted 2 months ago.“I don’t know what it is,” laughs Foxes singer/guitarist Robin Pecknold from Glasgow, the final stop of the Seattle quintet’s sold-out UK tour. “There’s just a bunch of people making music in the Northwest that’s really interesting to me. When you’re in America, you can say that it sounds Northwestern or Southeastern or Appalachian, West Coast or Californian, but over here, they just say it sounds American.”
While Fleet Foxes’ stunning debut LP for Sub Pop wanders across a geographical crossroads, it also bends time, melting a cappella hymns into the classic pop harmonies of the Beach Boys and Crosby, Stills & Nash with the Southern-dripped echo of My Morning Jacket. The rich rural odes, meanwhile, draw more in mood from romantic poets, weaving natural awe with a quiet melancholy. Pecknold admits that maintaining the rural inspiration on tour has proven problematic.
“On the last tour, I didn’t write a single thing at all,” he says. “It was awful. It just felt like two months of creative time lost. But right before we left for this tour, I went with my girlfriend to Mount Hood, and we just stayed in a cabin for a few days. I began, like, eight songs in that time. All we had to do was keep the fire going and play guitar. It was kind of like the perfect day, every day.”
These cats come in first place in the ‘Sounds like old My Morning Jacket’ sweepstakes, which gives them a solid showing in the always-popular ‘sounds like Crazy Horse’ competition. With the Duchess & the Duke and Balmorhea. more at austin360.com
Posted 2 months ago.The music industry never seems too concerned with inspiring patience, so the breakthrough of Fleet Foxes comes as a soothing shock. Indie-rock fans do occasionally tire of clutter and quirk, making it the perfect time for the Seattle band to gently roll its acoustic guitar, four-part harmonies, and immersive folk melodies. Fleet Foxes’ recent Sun Giant EP and its new self-titled album on Sub Pop tend to bring the words “pastoral” and “choral” to mind, and indeed tunes like “He Doesn’t Know Why” suggest rosy-voiced clergy joining in on a peasant sing-along. Granted, Fleet Foxes wallows incorrigibly in this ornate haze, but the band often transcends its limits with slow-surging wonders, especially Sun Giant’s “Drops In The River.” Opening: The Duchess And The Duke, Balmorhea.
Posted 2 months ago.