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At the end of 2008, Fleet Foxes was rated album of the year by Billboard's Critic's Choice and in Metacritic's end of year best album round-up it appeared in 17 lists, topping six of them. Furthermore, it had sold over 408,000 copies in North America and over 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom, making it the first gold certificate record for UK label Bella Union . [ 24 ]
- Fleet Foxes, 2008. “Very beautiful and relaxing album, it makes you happy. Warmness is everywhere on this album. You can feel the summer. Ok, I don’t know the lyrics for songs but it sounds summer.
- Helplessness Blues, 2011. “A personal all-time favorite in the genre of folk, there’s not much I could say negative about this thing. It’s a little pretentious, sure, but more than that it’s passionate.
- Crack-Up, 2017. “The lyricism is on point and the song structures are eleborate. “Third of May/Odaigahara” has a progression like a King Crimson album, having a big folk climax and a quiet freeform section on the same song.
- Shore, 2020. “Musically, I think this is one of my favorite Fleet Foxes releases, the drums and everything feels very lush to my ears and the production on here is very satisfying, though I think that could be said for almost all of their records they’ve put out so far.
- “White Winter Hymnal” Fleet Foxes’ first big single is also their best song. It’s a cozy song, and even feels like winter (not just due to the power of suggestion in the title).
- “Mykonos” From the very first line in the verse, “The door slammed loud and rose up a cloud of dust, on us,” listeners detect a tension. Although it’s ambiguous to whom the narrator is referring, it’s clear that their was some sort of confrontation.
- “He Doesn’t Know Why” Possibly the best line in the Fleet Foxes catalogue comes in this song off the band’s self-titled album. “Memory is a fickle siren’s song I didn’t understand,” sings Pecknold.
- “English House” Although it might seem like Fleet Foxes only sing about birds, spring, the harvesting wheat, that’s not the case. Pecknold is actually a great lyricist and storyteller.
Sep 23, 2020 · The idea of refinement is crucial to Fleet Foxes because, on the surface, the band sounds remarkably similar to how it did 12 years ago—without feeling like it’s retreading past sounds or themes.
- Matthew Strauss
Aug 24, 2022 · However, solo tours are a possibility at some point, he reveals, having now generated enough Fleet Foxes songs that he can play without a full band to fill a set with.
Two members of the Fleet Foxes (Christian Wargo and Casey Wescott) joined brothers Ian and Peter Murray to form Poor Moon that debuted with the EP Illusion (Sub Pop, 2012), sounding a lot like the Fleet Foxes. The full-length Poor Moon (Sub Pop, 2012) contains mostly slow-motion filler, over which the Sixties revival pop of Waiting For easily ...
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Jun 30, 2017 · In June 2008, just as Seattle band Fleet Foxes came to prominence, I asked their linchpin Robin Pecknold, then 22, about his group’s name. "I just liked the sound of the words," he replied. "They seemed evocative of some weird English activity like fox hunting." I thought about this again in 2012, by which time it was Pecknold himself who had ...
