Fleet Foxes

Every once in a while, a band comes along and your all like:

"I've heard this befo...but I haven't...It's so original and retro... BRAIN ASPLOSION!!!"


Well, thats Fleet Foxes. This band is genius. They have the harmony of Crosby, Stills, and Nash,
with the pop sensibilities to match. Lead singer man Robin Pecknold is riveting with his warbly half falsetto, and the band never overpowers him or the harmonies or the message, a rare thing these days. I've been absolutely in love with their Sun Giant EP for about three days. It is literally on repeat.

I feel Fleet Foxes is going to be a big deal to a lot of people someday. Hopefully the Seattle, Washington natives will make the trek to Dallas so I can partake in the glory. Its kinda funny how you really get transported into a very different time of life when you listen to Fleet Foxes. Certainly, as has been pointed out before, they have much in common with Denton heroes Midlake (whom I have adored since my youth). At a single chord they can conjure up a story you feel you've heard a thousand times, a fable of your childhood that you haven't heard in ages. And so it is that Fleet Foxes gets my highest recommendation.

Look out on the horizon for their new album, tentatively scheduled for release on Sub-Pop on June 3rd.
Keep yo fingas crossed.

Take a gander through the backwoods of the Northwest:

From the Sun Giant EP
mp3: "Mykonos"
mp3: "English House"

From their as-yet-untitled LP release:
mp3: "White Winter Hymnal"

lyrics to "White Winter Hymnal":

I was following the pack
all swallowed in their coats
with scarves of red tied ’round their throats
to keep their little heads
from fallin’ in the snow
And I turned ’round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
and turn the white snow red as strawberries
in the summertime..

Sometimes there is beauty within simplicity.