
Seattle band offers crash course in indie Americana on promising debut LP
Fleet Foxes draw a line from Crosby, Stills & Nash to Grizzly Bear on their self-titled debut LP, belting out complex, incandescent harmonies over ramshackle Americana. There’s also a Band of Horses somewhere in their menagerie, as they forgo experimental edginess for a more traditional, rustic approach. “Sun it Rises” opens the album with some a cappella, shape-note-style harmonies, which carry over into a wash of dust-bowl acoustic guitar and banjo, decorated with an ivy trellis of electric guitar. This is the album’s overarching motif. Some songs complicate it: The outstanding “White Winter Hymnal” adds a dollop of doo-wop, “He Doesn’t Know Why” appropriates the arch singing of classic British folk, and “Ragged Wood” is a beach-music dream. But what we take away from the album is less a collection of specific moments and more a feeling. It’s like watching the sun rise over distant mountaintops, over and over, familiar and captivating all at once. [by Brian Howe]
MP3: Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
02 TV On The Radio - Dear Science ♫
03 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend ♫
04 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago ♫
05 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular ♫
06 Portishead - Third ♫
07 Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours ♫
08 Sigur Rós - með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust ♫
09 M83 - Saturdays=Youth ♫
10 The Hold Steady - Stay Positive ♫
11 Deerhunter - Microcastle
12 Santogold - Santogold
13 Frightened Rabbit - The MIdnight Organ Fight
14 Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
15 Coldplay - Viva La Vida
16 The Walkmen - You & Me
17 Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
18 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
19 No Age - Nouns
20 The Dodos - Visiter
21 She & Him - Volume One
22 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
23 Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
24 Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
25 Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
26 My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
27 Beach House - Devotion
28 Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park
29 Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
30 WHY? - Alopecia
31 Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
32 Foals - Antidotes
33 The Black Keys - Attack & Release
34 Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
35 Lykke Li - Youth Novels
36 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
37 The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
38 Blitzen Trapper - Furr
39 of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
40 Beck - Modern Guilt
41 Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
42 Sun Kil Moon - April
43 Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
44 Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
45 R.E.M. - Accelerate
46 Shearwater - Rook
47 Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
48 Glasvegas - Glasvegas
49 The Kills - Midnight Boom
50 Mates Of State - Re-Arrange Us
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