Fleet Foxes | Loppylugs

Submitted by Neil Hornsey on 14 February 2013 - 10:51pm

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Track-listing:

Sun It Rises*White Winter Hymnal*Ragged Wood*Tiger Mountain Peasant Song*Quiet Houses*He Doesn’t Know Why*Heard Them Stirring*Your Protector*Meadowlarks*Blue Ridge Mountains*Oliver James

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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

2-3-6

Wonderful music. The harmonies are challenging and complex, try singing along to them. Well constructed, tuneful songs which sound great at low volume or belting out on a summer's day.
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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Ignore the obsessive retro, these are wonderfully crafted songs

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I’m not too comfortable with the idea of any band recreating so slavishly and inflexibly the sound of a bygone era. This is West Coast USA, early 70s, light country rock - jangly guitars and close harmonies. You're thinking Eagles, you're thinking Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, you’re thinking Fleet Foxes.

There might well be hardly a nod to the intervening 35 years but these are fantastically crafted songs done immaculately well. The singing is superbly executed and the music supports it nicely - the instrumentation is balanced, delicate and has plenty of variety of musical touches. This is nice music, that never gets noisy and never puts a foot wrong, and for the most part you’d have to say that was a good thing. Well, on this occasion anyway.
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reviewed by

Andrew Granger

A promising debut

3-8-11

Is it possible to be simultaneously slavishly retro and utterly of your time? I think Fleet Foxes may have managed it. For all the obvious nods to CSNY et al, the production and stylings of the album are undoubtedly 2008 and will sound familiar to anyone who's heard Vampire Weekend, Arcade Fire and their ilk. The lush vocal harmonies are the first thing you notice, and to be honest, their beauty occasionally masks a lack of attention to the music behind them, which can seem like something of an afterthough. The songs all have memorable hooks, but often fail to develop beyond a single initial idea. That said, this is a lovely, lush-sounding record with some great tunes. It seems a little unfair to criticise a debut album for a lack of development, and this is certainly a promising start. I'd be interested to see where they take it from here...
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reviewed by

Jon Taylor

Well executed 1970s folk rock - and nothing new.

I read what you say, but I'm afraid I hear the Eagles and Crosby, Stills & Nash in every track, and I don't think this adds anything new to the genre. They may be beautiful songs with great harmonies, but so were the Eagles and it's the 21st century now.