Fleet Foxes
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All time favorite Fleet album
Even my 8 year old daughter fell in love with these songs. The song writing and their signature sound takes you to very special places musically.
Great Harmony
Though not earth shaking or life changing, this album is well worth the download. Pleasing harmonies and intelligent lyrics are always enjoyable. Well-crafted music never goes out of fashion and grows more meaningful with listening. To criticize something for having been done before is meaningless. It's like saying we shouldn't listen to Tony Bennett because we've hear Frank Sinatra.
crosby, stills, and trash
skip the derivation and get a crosby, stills, and nash record.
Foxes...not...fleeting...
Love at first listen! Fleet Foxes is true Indie-Folk to the core. The talents of all the band members is utilized fully. The skillful, heartfelt writing of Robin Pecknold comes from a man who is expressive and genuine. I for one; being a child of the '60s appreciate young artists who value that era and are brave enough to revive it so skillfully. Bravo!
Loosen up your wig, please.
As some have indicated here already, what people respond to in this work isn't really hard to identify—pretty harmonies and melodies within full, rich arrangements. Isn't that enough of a cause for pleasure or even infatuation? Are we that sour and disaffected? Are we that old?
I don't.....
I do not get the appeal of this ..... It is not that it is bad it has just been done before and is rather boring...
Why?
Why the appeal? Simple. It's good melodies, good harmonies and good singing. Since when is that are those things considered flaws in music?
the fox emperor has no clothes
Please can someone explain why (to me)the bland regressive sound of Fleet Foxes has captured so many. I feel like this has redefined the genre of middle-of-the-road, hand-clapping music. Maybe I'll wake up in a few years and get it, but thankfully I'll have time to catch them - as I hear their reunion tour is already being planned to fill the venues that are playing Mamma Mia today.
Definition of a new genre
It's easy to pick out the inspirations and influences of Fleet Foxes, but they have the very rare gift of transfiguring them into something completely new. This album is going to be relevant for a very long time. Start to finish, every track is a gem of songwriting, storytelling, and instrumentation- not to mention those extremely rich vocal harmonies that evoke the best of the Beach Boys and the song structures of the most confident Brian Wilson when he was out on a limb and didn't care. Absolutely gorgeous.
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