The journey of Fleet Foxes began with the childhood friendship of Robin Pecknold and Skyler Skjelset. The two wrote and composed songs for eight years before adding the instrumentation of Nicholas Peterson (drums), Casey Wescott (Keyboards), and Bryn Lumsden (bass). Armed with a full lineup, Fleet Foxes took their baroque pop stylings to Sub Pop, who earlier this year released the Sun Giant EP, followed by their more recent self-titled full-length. They’ll do a stint opening for Wilco later this month. Check out their sound in this edition of the Songlines podcast.
Critical praise for this album has been overwhelming, highlighted by four stars from Rolling Stone and a whopping 9.0 from Pitchfork. Pitchfork is (in)famous for giving nearly everything a mediocre score, as was hilariously accentuated by The Onion last fall.
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Excellent post. Could not have said it any better myself. Hat’s off to a post well said.
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