Again looked up a song, but this time because of the terrible off-key dissonance. Rate it a 2

10

I see now what the fuss is about. Lovely, layered, multi-flavored. :)

 Jungle_Jim wrote: 
I like this music. And your telling review. Makes it nicer to listen to.

Nice.  Reminds me of the Soundtrack from Our Lives.

I keep loving this one and my guess is, i'll still love it 50 years from now...
9

 RParadise wrote: 
Too funny
 

I do like this one  

 Stingray wrote: 
7 to 9

From an old guy from the 60's, I really do like to hear music like this, when I first heard this song, I recognized them immediatlely as the Fleet Foxes, though I'd agree that they have some flavor of Crosby, Stills and Nash, they are in their own league, Good stuff. And most importantly uplifts my soul.

 Muffy wrote: 

Not sure I'd claim to be that good at recognizing someone who was suicidal. But maybe you didn't mean that literally. Nevertheless, something tells me your statement is somewhat less than fully accurate. Presumably some of those people were there specifically to see them. Perhaps you are projecting your own opinion onto others at least to some extenet. I'm just sayin'...

Fleet Foxes_02 by ~Vrijdags
Stefan  ©2009-2010 ~Vrijdags

Some pictures taken in november 2008 @ a dutch music festival called Crossing Border. It was the second time seattle rock band Fleet Foxes performed live in Holland. Definitely one of the best concerts of 2008. Though the concert hall was packed, i managed to get pretty close and take pictures.

"What if you knew her and
found her dead on the ground . . ."

Oops.  Wrong performers.

Saw this group at a great outdoor venue in salt lake. they didn't disappoint the crowd. we enjoyed the show!

 vandal wrote: 
Seconded. I saw them in Hyde park during the summer, half the crowd were comatose by the end of their set. Most of the rest looked suicidal.

,,another one of those songs,,whats' the rip of,,thing,, !!??
",,all I,,,need " ?

I don't know much by these guys.
But every time one of their songs come on, I think I'm hearing My Morning Jacket.
Considering I like MMJ, it might be a good thing...

The word that comes to mind is "ethereal" — love the harmonies.  Comparisons be damned, this is damned good!

not on my Christmas list......yet

Fleet Foxes are conjuring magic - as though they are drinking from a sacred well. They are timeless - as though they've just time traveled from either 1970 or 1870 - a bit like the way The Band seemed to draw from the ancestral spirits of the north American continent. I know FF are CSNY meets Beach Boys and similar to My Morning Jacket (and I hear Lindisfarne aswell), but these guys could be the best band of their generation if they do 3-4 more albums as good as this stuff.

Best album of 2008, imo.

Soooooooooooo boring to watch live, and just as muddy/off key.  Must be their MO. . .

Fleet Foxes can write some pretty catchy songs!!  Me Likey

 cosmiclint wrote: 
Whoa, taking things a bit literally. Hyperbole not in your dictionary?? Relatively speaking the Beatles records were done in hours compared to the months and months most modern acts takes to record...but you made your point.

I most certainly bow to your superior encyclopedic knowledge on the behind-the-scenes details, but having spent several decades as a professional guitarist with some platinum records in my career, I can assure you, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the vocals on this recording are not in tune in parts. Not an issue of timbre or vocal quality. They're not hitting the notes. So much so, that you'd have a better chance of convincing me they were doing it on purpose.

I actually like these guys..or more to the point, what they are attempting to do. You could do much worse than shooting to follow C,S & N and the beach Boys 

Something about this..... I can't put my finger on it. But for some reason I like this a lot.

 RadioDoc wrote: 
The above post is worth bumping to the front of the line again. The bad vocal production on this (and every other Fleet Foxes song I've heard) is very disappointing, particularly when you consider how carefully Bill works to make sure the music here sounds as good as possible. Merely transitioning from any other song to these muddy vocals makes my ears twitch (and not in a good way).  The off-key singing in and after the acapella bridge doesn't help much either.

Available as a free download this week from Amazon as part of the Amazon Sampler SubPop along with some other artists you'll recognize from RP.