Fleet Foxes

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Fleet Foxes
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Fleet Foxes performing live in Copenhagen in 2008
Fleet Foxes performing live in Copenhagen in 2008
General information
origin Seattle , United States
Genre (s) Indie rock , indie folk , folk pop
founding 2005
Website fleetfoxes.com
Current occupation
Robin Pecknold
guitar
Skyler Skjelset
Casey Westcott
Christian Wargo (since 2008)
Morgan Henderson (since 2012)
former members
Joshua "Josh" Tillman (2008–2012)
Drums
Nicholas "Nick" Peterson (until 2008)
bass
Craig Curran (until 2008)
Live and session members
Drums
Matt Barrick (since 2017)

Fleet Foxes is an American band from Seattle . The quintet describes their music as “baroque harmonic pop jams”.

history

In 2006 the band gave their first small live concerts under the name Fleet Foxes . In her second year as a band, she played during an extended tour with folk rockers Blitzen Trapper in sold-out halls. In 2008 she was also a support act for Elbow and Wilco .

Her debut album Fleet Foxes was released in the US on June 3, 2008 on the Sub Pop label . In Europe it was relocated at Bella Union . The album received positive reviews in the specialist press after it was released. The band's style has been compared to the psychedelic pop music of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly formations such as The Byrds , Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Beach Boys .

In September 2010 singer Robin Pecknold announced that the recordings for the second album were completed. The new album called Helplessness Blues was released on April 29, 2011. The band was increased to six members for their second album, and new instruments such as zither , double bass and steel guitar are now expanding the soundscape. In the center of the songs, however, are still the polyphonic choral movements. The release of the new album was followed by a tour of the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Spain and Ireland. The third album Crack Up was released on June 16, 2017.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Fleet Foxes
  DE 51 08/22/2008 (4 weeks)
  UK 3 
platinum
platinum
06/28/2008 (67 weeks)
  US 36 
gold
gold
06/21/2008 (43 weeks)
Helplessness blues
  DE 11 05/13/2011 (5 weeks)
  AT 29 05/13/2011 (4 weeks)
  CH 31 05/15/2011 (2 weeks)
  UK 2 
gold
gold
05/14/2011 (14 weeks)
  US 4th 05/21/2011 (23 weeks)
Crack-up
  DE 25th 06/23/2017 (2 weeks)
  AT 29 06/30/2017 (1 week)
  CH 26th 06/25/2017 (2 weeks)
  UK 9 06/29/2017 (4 weeks)
  US 9 07/08/2017 (3 weeks)
EPs
Sun Giant
  US 170 04/25/2009 (2 weeks)
Singles
Mykonos
  UK 51 
silver
silver
01/24/2009 (6 weeks)
White winter hymnal
  UK 77 04/18/2009 (1 week)

Albums

EPs

  • 2006: Fleet Foxes
  • 2008: Sun Giant

Singles

  • 2008: White Winter Hymnal
  • 2009: Mykonos
  • 2008: The False Knight on the Road
  • 2011: Helplessness Blues (Online)
  • 2017: Fool's Errand

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US1 US2
  2. Music Sales Awards: US UK