Fleet Foxes - s/t
As far as the music? Robin puts it best: “We aim to be adventurous and true to ourselves and to enjoy our time together-the music we make is a reflection of our instincts. To me, the most enjoyable thing in the world is to sing harmony with people, so we do that a bunch. We love acoustic guitars, electric guitars, big rolling tom drums, mandolins, dulcimers, bass guitars, bass pedals, organs, pianos, kotos, and most of all harmony and melody. We've succeeded for ourselves if we've made a song where every instrument is doing something interesting and melodic. We try to draw from the traditions of folk music, pop, choral music and gospel, baroque psychedelic, sacred harp singing, West Coast music, traditional music from Ireland to Japan, and film scores, and are inspired by the music of our friends and contemporaries in the Seattle music family.”
Recorded prior to Sun Giant, Fleet Foxes and the EP form a cohesive unit, cut from the same harmonious cloth, sturdily woven from shimmering strands pulled from sources that range from the natural world and familial bonds to bygone loves and stone cold graves. Fleet Foxes flows from a trickle of slowly melting snow to meandering river, rushing rapids, then back again. The jangly warmth of album opener “Sun It Rises,” is brought to life with multi-part harmonies that spread across some distant or not so distant terrain, slowly ascending higher to reveal hilltop crescendos, bleeding through to valleys and melting over plains before giving way to “White Winter Hymnal”'s cyclical prose, rolling rhythms and stark comparisons of blood on snow to strawberries in summertime. Haunting shadows and unsettled melodies dance with demons in “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song,” the spare acoustic guitar of “Oliver James” is broken with gentle taps on the Martin's hollow body, while soaring a cappella vocals evoke the dawn of a new life, cloaked in whispers from generations past. Download full bio.
"The Sun Giant EP ... contains familiar sounds, but Fleet Foxes make something new and special with them, following their own musical whims as closely as they follow tradition. (Maybe more closely.) These five songs-- modest but never spare, atmospheric but never as an end in itself-- change shape constantly, taking in elements of classic rock, church music, old-timey folk, and soundtrack flourishes." - Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork Media
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| Sat May 24 |
George WA @ Sasquatch!
w/ Death Cab for Cutie
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| Thu Jun 26 |
San Francisco CA @ Bottom of the Hill
w/ TBA
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| Fri Jun 27 |
San Diego CA @ The Casbah
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| Sat Jun 28 |
Los Angeles CA @ The Echo
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| Sun Jun 29 |
Los Angeles CA @ Spaceland
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| Mon Jun 30 |
Tucson AZ @ Solar Culture
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| Wed Jul 02 |
Austin TX @ The Mohawk
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| Thu Jul 03 |
Dallas TX @ The Loft
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| Sat Jul 05 |
Atlanta GA @ Drunken Unicorn
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| Sun Jul 06 |
Chapel Hill NC @ Local 506
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| Mon Jul 07 |
Washington DC @ Black Cat Backstage
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| Tue Jul 08 |
Philadelphia PA @ First Unitarian Church
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| Wed Jul 09 |
New York NY @ Bowery Ballroom
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| Mon Jul 14 |
Cambridge MA @ The Middle East Upstairs
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| Tue Jul 15 |
Montreal QC @ Le Divan Orange
w/ TBA
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| Fri Jul 18 |
Madison WI @ U of Wisconsin - Terrace
w/ Hawk and a Hacksaw
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| Sat Jul 19 |
Chicago IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
w/ Animal Collective, Vampire Weekend
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| Sun Jul 20 |
Minneapolis MN @ 7th Street Entry
w/ TBA
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| Tue Jul 22 |
Denver CO @ Hi-Dive
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| Wed Jul 23 |
Salt Lake City UT @ Kilby Court
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| Fri Jul 25 |
Portland OR @ Doug Fir
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