1. Sun It Rises 2. White Winter Hymnal 3. Ragged Wood 4. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song 5. Quiet Houses 6. He Doesn t Know Why 7. Heard Them Stirring 8. Your Protector 9. Meadowlarks 10. Blue Ridge Mountains 11. Oliver James

It s now twenty years since grunge emerged from then culturally isolated Seattle and Fleet Foxes, the eponymous debut album from the city s latest heroes, demonstrates just how much American independent rock has mutated in that time. The five young members of Fleet Foxes make up a very different sort of rock band, describing their own music as baroque harmonic pop jams. Even that understates the depths of the quintet s effortless vocal harmonies and gently woozy, folky feel. Of their contemporaries only the enigmatic Midlake and My Morning Jacket at their most fragile come close, but neither could have cooked up the Beach Boys spiritual of White Winter Hymnal or its more powerful companion piece Ragged Wood. In fact Fleet Foxes happily admit to aspiring to an earlier tradition--not just obvious antecedents like the Byrds, the Association, Neil Young and, especially, David Crosby s famously unfocussed solo album If Only I Could Remember My Name but ancient English folk songs and their l...

#Beautiful (2008-11-30) Wonderful and haunting. It sounds both contemporary, seventies and has more than a hint of old 19th century American folk music about it.

#Not quite Fleet enough (2008-11-29) Perfectly nice, perfectly pretty and certainly musically accomplished, the Fleet Foxes sound like. . . well, it s already been said, but certainly my first impression was the Beach Boys singing the back catalogue of Crosby Stills & Nash, with an annoying overlay of reverb. Unfortunately, they also lack any originality, soul or passion, and after a while (and I ve listened to this album many, many times) the bucolic whittering and twee lyrics become somewhat dull, and sometimes even cringeworthy. For this to be hailed as unique or a breath of f...

#blandy blandy laaaaaa.... (2008-11-29) How you can you praise something as being new when ultimately it is so derivative and based purely on music of the past? Good on them for trying but it doesn t work for me. Having read the reviews here as a big fan of 60 s west coast and psych, I was hoping that I d hear something that updated and reinvented the genre. I was really disappointed to say that least. Fleet Foxes have made an album without hooks, any catchiness or listen again factor as far as I m concerned. It s sweet and cute and trying to be authentic in what it tries to d...

#RATHER GOOD (2008-11-17) HELLO? HI, THIS IS A GOOD ALBUM, THE SONGS ARE GOOD, IT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD, IT MAKES YOU THINK.

#Honest opinion (2008-11-03) After catching a track on last. fm and locating and putting the album in my amazon wishlist I got around to ordering it for myself, as no one else seems to do it for me :-( I have given this a good listen a few times and I can honestly say that I think the album is great and the tunes are still going around in my head.

1. Sun Giant 2. Drops in the River 3. English House 4. Mykonos 5. Innocent Son

#What s all the fuss about? (2008-10-21) Ever had that experience when, while everyone else is rolling about laughing, you re standing there thinking: that s just not funny. I read the hype, I get the CD, I listened, I listened again - then I went back to the real deal - all that late 60s and early 70s stuff. After that I stopped caring that I just don t get this record.

#Nice (2008-06-20) I would give this a 4. 5 if i could, but being a mathematician I have learned always to round up, therfore it gets the 5 star treatment. Opens up beautifully and sets the tone for the next 4 tracks. Mykanos is the stand out track for me and the highlight when I saw them live also. Basically I would recommend anyone to buy this as I really cannot see what there is to dislike, the harmonies are perfect and the landscapes created by the lyrics are beautiful. Probably stronger than the album but you should just buy both anyway. That s all I have to say about that. PS if...

#dont buy the subpop import... (2008-06-06) it would be a waste of 6 pounds. . . the band are signed to bella union in europe, who are selling the ep online, in store and out with the band at shows. . . there is no reason to buy thr subpop import, which is in fact an illegal import. Subpop themselves do not support the sale of this product in our territory. they are entirely identical in every waysimon x

#baroque harmonic pop jams! (2008-05-06) How can you ignore a five star rave review? I can t, but I am nearly always disappointed. People tend to rave about things which are very particular to them, who knows what sets it off, something very personal usually which doesn t quite click with you. Also, if I had a pound for every glowing music review which mentions Brian Wilson or The Beach Boys I d be, well, able to finance these deflating musical forays. But this five track EP from Seattle five piece Fleet Foxes is worth everyone of those five stars (and a little alliteration too). It ...

#Whooopppppppieeee (2008-05-01) Really really good. Sounds a bit like Arcade Fire meets The Coral. . . . . tasty gospel folk music i say, tasty. . . . . better than a scrumdiddlyumptious bar made with Willy Wonkas perfectionist paws :)Pete McKay. . . . 15 minutes of fame at last!!!!!

1. Sun Giant 2. Drops in the River 3. English House 4. Mykonos 5. Innocent Son

#What s all the fuss about? (2008-10-21) Ever had that experience when, while everyone else is rolling about laughing, you re standing there thinking: that s just not funny. I read the hype, I get the CD, I listened, I listened again - then I went back to the real deal - all that late 60s and early 70s stuff. After that I stopped caring that I just don t get this record.

#Nice (2008-06-20) I would give this a 4. 5 if i could, but being a mathematician I have learned always to round up, therfore it gets the 5 star treatment. Opens up beautifully and sets the tone for the next 4 tracks. Mykanos is the stand out track for me and the highlight when I saw them live also. Basically I would recommend anyone to buy this as I really cannot see what there is to dislike, the harmonies are perfect and the landscapes created by the lyrics are beautiful. Probably stronger than the album but you should just buy both anyway. That s all I have to say about that. PS if...

#dont buy the subpop import... (2008-06-06) it would be a waste of 6 pounds. . . the band are signed to bella union in europe, who are selling the ep online, in store and out with the band at shows. . . there is no reason to buy thr subpop import, which is in fact an illegal import. Subpop themselves do not support the sale of this product in our territory. they are entirely identical in every waysimon x

#baroque harmonic pop jams! (2008-05-06) How can you ignore a five star rave review? I can t, but I am nearly always disappointed. People tend to rave about things which are very particular to them, who knows what sets it off, something very personal usually which doesn t quite click with you. Also, if I had a pound for every glowing music review which mentions Brian Wilson or The Beach Boys I d be, well, able to finance these deflating musical forays. But this five track EP from Seattle five piece Fleet Foxes is worth everyone of those five stars (and a little alliteration too). It ...

#Whooopppppppieeee (2008-05-01) Really really good. Sounds a bit like Arcade Fire meets The Coral. . . . . tasty gospel folk music i say, tasty. . . . . better than a scrumdiddlyumptious bar made with Willy Wonkas perfectionist paws :)Pete McKay. . . . 15 minutes of fame at last!!!!!

1. Sun Giant 2. Drops In The River 3. English House 4. Mykonos 5. Innocent Son

#What s all the fuss about? (2008-10-21) Ever had that experience when, while everyone else is rolling about laughing, you re standing there thinking: that s just not funny. I read the hype, I get the CD, I listened, I listened again - then I went back to the real deal - all that late 60s and early 70s stuff. After that I stopped caring that I just don t get this record.

#Nice (2008-06-20) I would give this a 4. 5 if i could, but being a mathematician I have learned always to round up, therfore it gets the 5 star treatment. Opens up beautifully and sets the tone for the next 4 tracks. Mykanos is the stand out track for me and the highlight when I saw them live also. Basically I would recommend anyone to buy this as I really cannot see what there is to dislike, the harmonies are perfect and the landscapes created by the lyrics are beautiful. Probably stronger than the album but you should just buy both anyway. That s all I have to say about that. PS if...

#dont buy the subpop import... (2008-06-06) it would be a waste of 6 pounds. . . the band are signed to bella union in europe, who are selling the ep online, in store and out with the band at shows. . . there is no reason to buy thr subpop import, which is in fact an illegal import. Subpop themselves do not support the sale of this product in our territory. they are entirely identical in every waysimon x

#baroque harmonic pop jams! (2008-05-06) How can you ignore a five star rave review? I can t, but I am nearly always disappointed. People tend to rave about things which are very particular to them, who knows what sets it off, something very personal usually which doesn t quite click with you. Also, if I had a pound for every glowing music review which mentions Brian Wilson or The Beach Boys I d be, well, able to finance these deflating musical forays. But this five track EP from Seattle five piece Fleet Foxes is worth everyone of those five stars (and a little alliteration too). It ...

#Whooopppppppieeee (2008-05-01) Really really good. Sounds a bit like Arcade Fire meets The Coral. . . . . tasty gospel folk music i say, tasty. . . . . better than a scrumdiddlyumptious bar made with Willy Wonkas perfectionist paws :)Pete McKay. . . . 15 minutes of fame at last!!!!!

1. Sun It Rises 2. White Winter Hymnal 3. Ragged Wood 4. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song 5. Quiet Houses 6. He Doesn t Know Why 7. Heard Them Stirring 8. Your Protector 9. Meadowlarks 10. Blue Ridge Mountains 11. Oliver James

It s now twenty years since grunge emerged from then culturally isolated Seattle and Fleet Foxes, the eponymous debut album from the city s latest heroes, demonstrates just how much American independent rock has mutated in that time. The five young members of Fleet Foxes make up a very different sort of rock band, describing their own music as baroque harmonic pop jams. Even that understates the depths of the quintet s effortless vocal harmonies and gently woozy, folky feel. Of their contemporaries only the enigmatic Midlake and My Morning Jacket at their most fragile come close, but neither could have cooked up the Beach Boys spiritual of White Winter Hymnal or its more powerful companion piece Ragged Wood. In fact Fleet Foxes happily admit to aspiring to an earlier tradition--not just obvious antecedents like the Byrds, the Association, Neil Young and, especially, David Crosby s famously unfocussed solo album If Only I Could Remember My Name but ancient English folk songs and their l...

#Beautiful (2008-11-30) Wonderful and haunting. It sounds both contemporary, seventies and has more than a hint of old 19th century American folk music about it.

#Not quite Fleet enough (2008-11-29) Perfectly nice, perfectly pretty and certainly musically accomplished, the Fleet Foxes sound like. . . well, it s already been said, but certainly my first impression was the Beach Boys singing the back catalogue of Crosby Stills & Nash, with an annoying overlay of reverb. Unfortunately, they also lack any originality, soul or passion, and after a while (and I ve listened to this album many, many times) the bucolic whittering and twee lyrics become somewhat dull, and sometimes even cringeworthy. For this to be hailed as unique or a breath of f...

#blandy blandy laaaaaa.... (2008-11-29) How you can you praise something as being new when ultimately it is so derivative and based purely on music of the past? Good on them for trying but it doesn t work for me. Having read the reviews here as a big fan of 60 s west coast and psych, I was hoping that I d hear something that updated and reinvented the genre. I was really disappointed to say that least. Fleet Foxes have made an album without hooks, any catchiness or listen again factor as far as I m concerned. It s sweet and cute and trying to be authentic in what it tries to d...

#RATHER GOOD (2008-11-17) HELLO? HI, THIS IS A GOOD ALBUM, THE SONGS ARE GOOD, IT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD, IT MAKES YOU THINK.

#Honest opinion (2008-11-03) After catching a track on last. fm and locating and putting the album in my amazon wishlist I got around to ordering it for myself, as no one else seems to do it for me :-( I have given this a good listen a few times and I can honestly say that I think the album is great and the tunes are still going around in my head.