Fleet Foxes is an album that I’ve been listening to for awhile now but have hesitated writing about. Why? I’m not really sure for Seattle’s Fleet Foxes are crazy good and have delivered an amazing album. Fleet Foxes is an album that is built on wonderfully haunting and vocal harmonies that just seem to hang in the air like lingering smoke catching the day’s fading sunlight. It is colored in green and amber hues like a less Southern rockin’ My Morning Jacket or maybe like Band Of Foxes. It is the synthesis of Beach Boys vs. Simon & Garfunkel vs. backwoods Applalachian folk singers all wrapped up and drenched in a warm glowing reverb.
I really really like Fleet Foxes a lot but even so… This is the sort of music I can see hippies dancing to. Dancing fervently. In a clearing in the middle of a forest. Barefoot and filthy. Smelling of patchouli and clove cigarettes. Crazy out their minds high. Seeing visions of elves, fawns, nymphs, and sprites. But hippies will be hippies, right? So as if Fleet Foxes weren’t good enough, they added J Tilliman (an incredible singer/songwriter in his own right) also recently joined Fleet Foxes as a drummer. How cool is that?
MP3 | Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal Fleet Foxes
MP3 | Fleet Foxes – Tiger Mountain Peasant Song Fleet Foxes
Great Album!
When people have asked me who I am listening to, and I say “Fleet Foxes, it often times creates another question: “Never heard of them… what do they sound like?”
I usually say it’s a combination of Band of Horses and My Morning Jacket. I’m glad to see that there is someone else who thinks along the same lines!
Who, me—hippeh??? You bet! LOL I wasn’t paying much attention to FF until Tillman said he joined them, but they grew on me fast after that. Great live band, too; trust me.
Likeness to MMJ is based mostly on the similarity of the voices of the two lead vocalists. The influences of these two bands are very different. Eric, you are much closer by naming Beach Boys and S&G.