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I know there are a few of us on the board that like them. It will be interesting to see if all the praise heaped upon their first one affects them. This one will be "less poppy" according to lead singer Robin Peckfold.

http://www.nme.com/news/fleet-foxes/48721

Few?? Maybe two.

See you at the gig! [8D]

White Winter Hymnal
Fleet Foxes

http://www.amazon.com/White-Winter-Hymn ... 1000453281

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Listened to it through a couple of times now. Not good. I'll have to take a walk in the wood to see if that transforms my opinion, but at this point, I'm not hopeful. [V]

Rolling Stone really LIKES the latest FF release:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... s-20110428

Not sure if that is a good thing or the kiss of death.



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[quote][i]Originally posted by djcraig[/i]
<br>Rolling Stone really LIKES the latest FF release:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... s-20110428

Not sure if that is a good thing or the kiss of death.



<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>


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If Rolling Stone likes it then that means the elderly will purchase it.

What remains to be seen is whether the morons at Pitchfork give it a good review.

[quote][i]Originally posted by ghosty[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by djcraig[/i]
<br>Rolling Stone really LIKES the latest FF release:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... s-20110428

Not sure if that is a good thing or the kiss of death.



<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>


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If Rolling Stone likes it then that means the elderly will purchase it.

What remains to be seen is whether the morons at Pitchfork give it a good review.
[/quote]

Well, Blurcher IS getting up there but I didn't think he was quite decrepit yet.


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[quote][i]Originally posted by djcraig[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by ghosty[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by djcraig[/i]
<br>Rolling Stone really LIKES the latest FF release:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... s-20110428

Not sure if that is a good thing or the kiss of death.



<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>


[/quote]

If Rolling Stone likes it then that means the elderly will purchase it.

What remains to be seen is whether the morons at Pitchfork give it a good review.
[/quote]

Well, Blurcher IS getting up there but I didn't think he was quite decrepit yet.


<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>


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I'd be shocked if he read Rolling Stone. I just assumed that Rolling Stone is read by guys in their mid-60's who sport a grey ponytail and hang out at Starbucks trying desperately to mingle with 20 year olds by name dropping Adele right before they head home to fling their carcasses on their beds and weep tears of shame while they listen to Neil Young for the umpteenth time that week. [:D]

Doesn't sound like Frau's style at all. He is more into driving his Chevy van to hang out at the local park around the time school gets out.

He is/was a rabid FF fan, or so I thought. Haven't heard a BLURb out of him.




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I've had my epiphany. I'm recalling now that both albums came out in late winter, in that pale light, among the leafless trees, as we along with nature possibly hibernated just a bit. But now with our awakening to the burst of leaves and flowers, the warm glow of the post-vernal sun, the mighty stag in the quiet wood ramming its cock into the roe deer, I get it. I really get it. Now I recall that this was much the same as the original album - that I needed an epiphanal spring walk in the woods to "get" this album.

Anyway, what he says...

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Vid clearly demonstrates that even back in the day, bands were ascribing to the "let's all smoke some pot, join a commune and set our wordly aspirations aside" mindset.

Seems that "Nu-folk" sound has become all the rage lately. But even Popmasters like the Beach Boys couldn't make that shit sound good.

I must go walk among the calla lilys now and meditate.



<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>

[quote][i]Originally posted by djcraig[/i]
<br>Vid clearly demonstrates that even back in the day, bands were ascribing to the "let's all smoke some pot, join a commune and set our wordly aspirations aside" mindset.

Seems that "Nu-folk" sound has become all the rage lately. But even Popmasters like the Beach Boys couldn't make that shit sound good.

I must go walk among the calla lilys now and meditate.



<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>


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Ah, I have to disagree here. I love the Beach Boys sound from 1966 through 1970, despite the slow devolution of Brian Wilson's interest in it (the real crapfest begins when Mike Love starts shoehorning his TM and ecology themed lyrics into it) . My point was that Fleet Foxes must love it too since much of the new album borrows that sound from the era lock, stock and barrel, with a little bit of Simon and Garfunkel's "Parsley, Sage Rosemary and Thyme" album thrown in.

I don't know why Nu-Folk has taken off either, particularly since it's been sitting on record shelves for 45 years but who am I to judge.