Fleet Foxes (album)

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Fleet Foxes
Studio album by Fleet Foxes

Publication
(s)

June 2008

Label (s) Bella Union , Sub Pop

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Folk , indie rock

Title (number)

11

running time

39 min 15 s

occupation
  • Robin Pecknold
  • Skyler Skjelset
  • Nick Peterson
  • Casey Wescott
  • Craig Curran

production

Phil Ek

Studio (s)

chronology
- Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
(2011)
Single releases
2008 White winter hymnal
2008 The Rip
2009 Your Protector
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Fleet Foxes
  DE 51 08/22/2008 (4 weeks)
  UK 3 06/28/2008 (62 weeks)
  US 36 06/21/2008 (42 weeks)
Singles
White winter hymnal
  UK 77 04/18/2009 (1 week)

Fleet Foxes is the self-titled debut album by the American indie band Fleet Foxes . It was released on Bella Union / Sub Pop in June 2008 .

Track list

  1. Sun It Rises - 3:11
  2. White Winter Hymnal - 2:27
  3. Ragged Wood - 5:07
  4. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - 3:28
  5. Quiet Houses - 3:32
  6. He Doesn't Know Why - 3:20
  7. Heard Them Stirring - 3:02
  8. Your Protector - 4:09
  9. Meadowlarks - 3:11
  10. Blue Ridge Mountains - 4:25
  11. Oliver James - 3:23

Reviews

The album was highly acclaimed by the critics. So awarded The Guardian and The Observer full credit for the album. Allmusic rates the album with four out of five and Pitchfork Media with 9.0 out of 10 points.

Also laut.de awards with five out of five full points and draws a conclusion:

“Categorizations like neo-folk or freak-folk don't really get to the heart of the music of this young quintet. In any case, their music lets folk pop shine in a new light. The Fleet Foxes fall back on different folkloric traditions of the world and bundle them in eleven timeless songs, which they call "baroque harmonic pop jams". Let's leave it at that. Great debut of a somehow different band that defies the abyss of humanity in a very magical way. "

- Martin people

The Times and Pitchfork Media even voted the album their album of the year 2008 at the end of the year . At Plattentests.de , the album made it to number 2 in the 2008 annual charts for the editors and also number 3 among readers.

Album cover

The album cover shows a section of the picture “De Blauwe Huik” (“ The Dutch Proverbs ”) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Chart sources: DE chart tracking ( memento of the original from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. / UK chart statistics / US chart history @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  2. ^ Review Guardian
  3. ^ The Guardian
  4. Review at Allmusic
  5. Review laut.de
  6. ^ "The 100 best records of 2008" (The Times)
  7. ^ "The 50 Best Albums of 2008" (Pitchfork Media)