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I was just listening to the new Fleet Foxes album. Wow, what a grower. Pretty fabulous blend of earthy folky psychedelic indie. Really bummed to have missed them at SXSW. Then I realize that folks like Band of Horses and Helio Sequence fit a similar vein. Maybe they're great or maybe they're just refreshing because they're different. Not "next wave" I suppose but certainly next something. Any others?

Fleet Foxes
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Helio Sequence
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Band of Horses
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Oh BTW, their current tour:

Thu 06/26/08 San Francisco, CA Bottom Of The Hill
Fri 06/27/08 San Diego, CA The Casbah
Sat 06/28/08 Los Angeles, CA Echo
Sun 06/29/08 Los Angeles, CA Spaceland
Mon 06/30/08 Tucson, AZ Solar Culture Gallery
Wed 07/02/08 Austin, TX The Mohawk
Thu 07/03/08 Dallas, TX The Loft
Sat 07/05/08 Atlanta, GA Drunken Unicorn
Sun 07/06/08 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
Mon 07/07/08 Washington, DC Black Cat
Tue 07/08/08 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church
Wed 07/09/08 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
Thu 07/10/08 Brooklyn, NY Union Hall
Sat 07/12/08 Redmond, WA Marymoor Amphitheatre
Mon 07/14/08 Cambridge, MA Middle East Upstairs
Tue 07/15/08 Montreal, QC Le Divan Orange
Wed 07/16/08 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre
Fri 07/18/08 Madison, WI University Of Wisconsin
Sat 07/19/08 Chicago, IL Union Park
Sun 07/20/08 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
Tue 07/22/08 Denver, CO Hi-Dive
Wed 07/23/08 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
Fri 07/25/08 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
Sat 07/26/08 Seattle, WA Capitol Hill Festival Grounds
Thu 08/07/08 Oslo, NOR Middelalderparken
Fri 08/08/08 Gothenburg, SWE Festival Grounds
Mon 08/18/08 Salt Lake City, UT Red Butte Garden
Wed 08/20/08 Eagle, ID The Winery @ Eagle Knoll
Thu 08/21/08 Spokane, WA INB Performing Arts Center
Sat 08/23/08 Bend, OR Les Schwab Amphitheater
Sun 09/21/08 San Francisco, CA Treasure Island

Classifying this stuff is kind of a bitch, isn't it? I guess you could try Rogue Wave, Two Gallants or Okkervil River and for the weirder stuff, Oneida.

Right, Okkervil are right in there! It's not stuff I typically would have gravitated to, but again, maybe just the difference is drawing me.

I kid you not, I was listening to Fleet Foxes Sunday and said "I'm sure all those indie rock critics will go ga ga over this but I classified it under BORING". I do rather like the Helio Sequence and Band of Horses however.

Hey, I'm an indie rock critic! [8D]

Entire Fleet Foxes gig and review at NPR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=92089028

Took a walk in the Berkshire hills to some Fleet Foxes. "Transformational" is all I can say.

White Winter Hymnal
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Ragged Wood
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