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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0098787077728 Label: Sub Pop Manufacturer: Sub Pop Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sub Pop Release Date: June 03, 2008 Studio: Sub Pop Sales Rank: 43 MPN: 70777
Product Description: Seattle's Fleet Foxes traffic in baroque harmonic pop. They draw influences from the traditions of folk, pop, choral, gospel, sacred harp singing, West Coast music, traditional music from Ireland to Japan, film scores, and their NW peers. The subject matter ranges from the natural world and familial bonds to bygone loves and stone cold graves.
Amazon.co.uk: It's now twenty years since grunge emerged from then culturally isolated Seattle and Fleet Foxes, the eponymous debut album from the city's latest heroes, demonstrates just how much American independent rock has mutated in that time. The five young members of Fleet Foxes make up a very different sort of rock band, describing their own music as "baroque harmonic pop jams". Even that understates the depths of the quintet's effortless vocal harmonies and gently woozy, folky feel. Of their contemporaries only the enigmatic Midlake and My Morning Jacket at their most fragile come close, but neither could have cooked up the Beach Boys spiritual of "White Winter Hymnal" or its more powerful companion piece "Ragged Wood". In fact Fleet Foxes happily admit to aspiring to an earlier tradition--not just obvious antecedents like the Byrds, the Association, Neil Young and, especially, David Crosby's famously unfocussed solo album If Only I Could Remember My Name but ancient English folk songs and their later American descendents. All were hunted and gathered from the internet--songwriters Robin Pecknold and Skye Skjelset are barely in their twenties. Add a host of unlikely instruments and the results are stunning, the complete antithesis of mainstream stadium indie that has followed Arcade Fire. Still, the cover features a Bruegel painting of peasants that might have graced any Black Sabbath sleeve. In that way at least Fleet Foxes salute a local tradition. -—Steve Jelbert
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - "Oliver James washed in the rain no longer."
Fleet Foxes' debut full length album is a pleasant, folksy good time. It doesn't really reach the heights that some more intense bands do, but the combination of good acoustic guitar work, alternately ... Read More
Rating: - Another Pitchfork Brainwash!
People, this is an average album by an average band. Yes, the melodies are pretty, yes, the guitars are pretty, yes, they have beards and they're from Seattle. Are you indie monkeys getting the picture ... Read More
Rating: - Fantastic!!
Outstanding composition, harmonies, and delivery. Do yourself a favor and get on board with this group! And go see them live whenever you can!
Rating: - Fantastic Foxes
I am in awe of this album. The band describes their sound as "baroque harmonic pop jams" which is pretty accurate except for the jam part which brings to mind those long, aimless and barely melodic exercises ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent, but so many reviews...
...seem to be given in the heat of the early moments--in that time when you first hear a new band you like and listen to them too much for your own good. There is certainly something to be said of a band that ... Read More
- "Oliver James washed in the rain no longer."
- Another Pitchfork Brainwash!
- Excellent, but so many reviews...