Fleet Foxes

4/5

Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes

The full length self-titled album was released on June 3, 2008, selling over 141,000 records in North America and 100,000 in the UK. Gained fan recognition through myspace page, collecting over a quarter million plays in over two months in 2007. Plays as a soothing, baroque, folk harmonic album. Five-piece band based out of Seattle. The album debuted at #11 on the UK album charts, eventually peaking at #3, and on June 26, 2008, it debuted in Sweden at #34, eventually reaching peak position at #16. It received very positive reviews, with an average of four to five stars of Read more on Last.fm.

  1. gives it a: 3/5

    Really enjoyed this album. The ethereal instrumentals and vocals are very pleasing. The tone swings from somber and haunting to upbeat and melodic. Very good chill out music and all but I did get somewhat bored as i listened through the album.

  2. gives it a: 5/5

    2008 saw the release of both Bon Iver’s “For Emma, Forever Ago,” and Fleet Foxes’ self-titled album. Both were “inspired” by the woods – Bon Iver’s in a literal sense, given his self-imposed isolation in the wilderness, and Fleet Foxes’ in more of an aural sense (after all, the album was recorded in Seattle). While Bon Iver’s album evoked a stark, threadbare vision of nature in wintertime, Fleet Foxes recreate the sound of forests in fall or spring, covered in rich colors. Robin Pecknold’s voice is a thing of beauty, and the harmonies his bandmates and he create are stunning. Of course, you can never go wrong with reverb, either, and Pecknold and co. lay it on liberally. The album vacillates between fully realized sagas like “Ragged Wood” and “Blue Ridge Mountains,” and shorter songs that are almost hymn-like, with incantatory chants. Fleet Foxes detractors criticize the band for being boring, but this well-crafted beauty is anything but.