Several months a go (in my “New Favorites” post) I wrote: You like Blitzen Trapper? Band of Horses make your nether regions quiver? YOU WILL LOVE FLEET FOXES. This is as haunting as folk got this week.
and then streamed this song by Fleet Foxes:
If you heard it then, you loved it.
If you hear it now, you will love it.
Since then, the Seattle five released “The Sun Giant” EP on Subpop which got reviews so raving (It’s a sovereign work: a statement EP, supremely crafted and confident) that there is nothing else I can add to them, and are releasing a full length “SP77″ this June, the very prospect of which makes me want to take a day off so I could just sit in the sun somewhere alone with it.
To quote their press release:
Drawing influence from the traditions of folk music, pop, choral music and gospel, sacred harp singing, West Coast music, traditional music from Ireland to Japan, film scores, and their NW peers, Fleet Foxes ranges in subject matter from the natural world and familial bonds to bygone loves and stone cold graves. Robin Pecknold is in Fleet Foxes: “All we strove for with this record was to make something that was an honest reflection of who we are, citizens of the western United States who love all kinds of music and above all else love singing…” And we believe them.
(I definitely do. I want to believe)
In a moment of rare serendipity, as the excitement about them mounts, they are in town tonight with Blitzen Trapper (see Jen’s interview with Marty here) who themselves called their live show “mind-blowingly good” and if you miss them, shame, shame, SHAME on you.
in the meantime, listen some more:
