Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes
17/01/10 18:36 Filed in: Indie Music | Alternative
Released June 3, 2008, Sub Pop.
Reviewed By Stephanie Attebery
Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes. While I anxiously await their March 16th visit to Seattle’s Triple Door I pull out the album for another listen. This is figurative of course, since it has never actually gone out of my sightline. As I listen I’m brought back to the late Saturday afternoons in my youth, when my parents’ folky music selections reigned in our house. I’m also reminded of when still small, I gazed up with deference at my grandfather and his fellow church flock lifting their voices in gospel song, my awakening to the power of harmony. Those moments are recalled and perfected in Foxes’ music. Songs that begin slow and build to a mesmerizing harmonic finale like Your Protector, and Blue Ridge Mountains. There are quieter songs too, with a graceful slowness. Like Oliver James, which I plan to sing, with imperfection and no hope of comparison, to a little one of my own someday as a lullaby. You must own this album.