In their defense, when I saw them in LA a few months back they had a ton of charisma and stage presence. They were really an entertaining band to watch. Every single guy with a mic--i.e., all but the guitarist--were super chatty throughout. It was a really wonderful show.
SNL, on the other hand... they just looked like they didn't want to fuck it up.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 04:44 (fifteen years ago) link
can hear my roommate listening in his bedroom and ive realized that idk if ive ever felt such a discrepancy between how much i enjoy a band when i hear them peripherally than when i'm actually trying to 'listen' to them
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 09:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait, which do you like more?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 09:23 (fifteen years ago) link
peripherally
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link
It is good housework music.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 09:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Listened to Yellow House the other day. Knocks this into a cocked-hat.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 10:05 (fifteen years ago) link
righto, so this 2CD version: worth it?
Or, too much of a.
Help me sick m, you'd know...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 10:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't even know there was a 2CD version? What's on the second disk?
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
apparently, now it contains "everything that's been recorded and released up to date"
Which is damn good of them, I have to say. Moreso than some extra DVD of a short documentary of larking around, 1 video and a screensaver...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Looking at it, the second CD is the Sun Giant EP plus a cover of a trad song that Steeleye Span made more widely known (False Knight On The Road - interesting choice cos for me it's the Brit folk-rock influence and the whole wide-eyed nature of a lot of that music that differentiates Fleet Foxes from Grizzly Bear). Haven't actually heard the cover, but the EP was good with some stronger tracks than some of those that made the album proper. It is just more of the same though basically.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Aye, I'd say just pick up the EP; it's more consistent and upbeat than the album proper.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link
apparently the dude has a solo project called "white antelope". the name alone boils my blood
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 4 February 2009 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Dude, it's a unicorn thing, you wouldn't understand.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/SnftV.jpg
― markers, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
I'm a big fan of these guys. Follow them very closely.
Therefore, I speculate after this last album and tour (and the subsequent happenings), that they're probably done for good. They will all probably continue to make music, but not as a group. I just hope Robin Pecknold has the good sense not to use the name Fleet Foxes anymore.
(unless, of course, I'm wrong and everyone's back on board for another album and tour)
I never understood the Beach Boys comparisons either. I have a theory that it all stems back to one Beach Boys song, to which a rather well-known Fleet Foxes song bares a strong resemblance.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UzIuEC_N58
For other Fleet ephemera, I'm really pleased with Poor Moon thus far. Already have seen them live (blew me away — all brand new material). Not crazy about the J. Tillman/Father John Misty stuff, though I never really have been.
― Austin, Thursday, 21 June 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
I have a theory that it all stems back to one Beach Boys song,
nah it's not just that. The breakdown in Quiet Houses (around 2:31) is a really blatant Smile/Pet Sounds pastiche - the plunking 1/4 piano, the ascending plucked guitar countermelody. There are a bunch of moments like this in their catalog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugxXqqGepCU
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 June 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
Right, but I meant without that one big significance, stuff like you pointed out on 'Quiet Houses' may have gone otherwise unnoticed.
That stuff is definitely there, but the similarities between Fleet Foxes and, say, CSN+Y or early America are much more prevalent.
― Austin, Thursday, 21 June 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
yeah they're definitely more of a early 70s folkie thing to my ears too. And I think they arrange their melodies more like Simon & Garfunkel than the Beach Boys lol
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 June 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
I never understood the Beach Boys comparisons either. I have a theory that it all stems back to one Beach Boys song, to which a rather well-known Fleet Foxes song bares a strong resemblance.
I have a theory that many critics were trained by Pavlov himself to shout 'Beach Boys!' whenever a human voice harmonised with another human voice.
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Friday, 22 June 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
An aside: speaking of 60's group harmonies that were possibly influential on the Fleet boys — what about the Association?
― Austin, Friday, 22 June 2012 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
turns out i like a fleet foxes song. who knew?
― crüt, Monday, 13 January 2014 01:52 (ten years ago) link
are you okay? you should sit down, elevate your legs, maybe take a sedative.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 13 January 2014 02:18 (ten years ago) link
wait, sedative + fleet-foxes song might be a bad combination.
which song
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Monday, 13 January 2014 03:27 (ten years ago) link
I think there was one I liked, but then there was a grizzly bear song that sounded very similar to it but better and then I forgot about the fleet foxes song
Oh yeah it was this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afRPnsncupg
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Monday, 13 January 2014 03:32 (ten years ago) link
fleet foxes are okay. bon iver can be okay. sufjan stevens is okay. many indie bands that are pilloried endlessly are okay. if people can listen appreciatively to seals & crofts songs, they can hardly complain much about fleet foxes.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 13 January 2014 03:33 (ten years ago) link
I think those are all examples of people that are pretty damned good at their craft, and all have a certain kind of tender yet grand style that can get very cloying in more than a small dose.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Monday, 13 January 2014 03:34 (ten years ago) link
i think you can say that about a lot of pop stars, too.
and hey, i like beyonce a lot.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 13 January 2014 03:35 (ten years ago) link
(in relatively small doses).
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 13 January 2014 03:36 (ten years ago) link
(apologies for the snark; by-product of late-night document review. i think you're exactly right)
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 13 January 2014 03:37 (ten years ago) link
Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes especially seem to have discovered this certain sound that is very pleasing and sweet and emotional but just over-relied on it to the point of it becoming maddening. It's like watching a movie where the Maurice Jarre theme is playing the whole time instead of just at key moments.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Monday, 13 January 2014 03:40 (ten years ago) link
i get that. still, while it may be a reflection of my age or a desire to revisit my youth, if bon iver wants to record a dozen more albums that sound like toto, i'd be fine with it.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 13 January 2014 03:43 (ten years ago) link
i remember that fleet foxes song (english house). it's good.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 13 January 2014 03:51 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I've really listened to the Bon Iver album that sounds like toto. That sounds different than what I'm thinking of.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Monday, 13 January 2014 03:55 (ten years ago) link
best example, iirc
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 13 January 2014 03:57 (ten years ago) link
From FB today:
For anyone who's curious, this is a short Fleet Foxes update - been a while! So, after the last round of touring, I decided to go back to school. I never got an undergraduate degree, and this felt like the right time to both see what that was about and to try something new after a while in the touring / recording lifestyle. I moved to New York and enrolled at Columbia, and I've mostly been doing that, but I'm working on songs and excited for whatever happens next musically, even if it's down the line. Hope all is well out there.Best,Robin
Best,Robin
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
he should've stayed silent
― markers, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link
I don't listen to this band but I think that's kind of rad, that he just went and got a degree
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
totally 100% agree with this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 23:16 (ten years ago) link
Next he's going to start making meta-art, acting in indies, doing installations, writing books, acting in soaps..
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 23:39 (ten years ago) link
I still maintain that they're done. He will do music again in some capacity, but Fleet Foxes burned him out big time.
― austinato (Austin), Thursday, 24 April 2014 00:20 (ten years ago) link
FB today
HeyWe have two shows happening next year that are ready to announce - the BBK Live festival in Bilbao, Spain, and the Vida Festival in Barcelona. Late June / early July. Many more to come worldwide, our third album is almost done and we're very... very... very excitedFF
We have two shows happening next year that are ready to announce - the BBK Live festival in Bilbao, Spain, and the Vida Festival in Barcelona. Late June / early July. Many more to come worldwide, our third album is almost done and we're very... very... very excited
FF
― a full playlist of presidential apocalypse jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 17 November 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
sweet!
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 November 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
new one is very good
― calstars, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 01:43 (seven years ago) link
best band going, Pecknold is a visionary
― alpine static, Monday, 12 June 2017 22:17 (six years ago) link
History still out on that one but dude does harmonize well withhimsrkf
― calstars, Monday, 12 June 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
* well with himself
― calstars, Monday, 12 June 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
New songs so far don't exactly sound like a big evolution from the old stuff, but also I really liked the old stuff and I like the new songs too.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 00:19 (six years ago) link
Dude has a very nice voice
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link