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Fleet Foxes
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Fleet Foxes’ self-titled album is just all right. At first listen the album comes across as whimsical, even magical, taking the listener to a place where a tree-lined street of log cabins play “Our House” by Crosby Stills Nash and Young. Take that song and repeat it eleven times, there you have Fleet Foxes. Songs about mountains and rivers, meadowlarks and tigers backed by banjos and squeaky chords turn a potentially warm album into a kitschy trap. However, where their lyrics fall short Fleet Foxes allow their four-part harmonies to fill the gaps. Lead vocalist Robin Pecknold’s bellowing voice is impressive and comforting. The sound is a marriage of My Morning Jacket’s vocalist Jim James and the tight harmonies are similar to those of Grizzly Bear. Fleet Foxes are not completely irredeemable; the track “White Winter Hymnal,” is addictive and uplifting as the five band mates come into the song like a round as if they’d been singing the song since childhood. Not surprising from a band whose music is reminiscent and stripped down -- a back to nature approach, if you will. (Sub Pop)
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