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 enlarge | Artist: Fleet Foxes
Label: Sub Pop
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
Buy New: $7.40
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Avg. Customer Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 141
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.3
MPN: 70777
UPC: 098787077728
EAN: 0098787077728
ASIN: B0017R5UAA
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Best I've heard lately October 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fleet Foxes deliver a sound and lyrics that are complex and completely listenable. Great harmonies along with a musical styling that sets them apart from most of todays music. Just a great, great album.
 Mixed bag October 16, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This CD has some really good tracks and some really boring ones. However, if you are into light listening music, I hear this is the 2008 light listening album to have besides of course Viva La Vida.
#1 On My Hit Parade October 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
At first I thought the parts stronger than the sum. In other words, each song had elements that were captivating both lyrically and melodically but the songs as a whole didn't seem to work. Then at some point after repeated listens, everything started to bake into the cake it was meant to be. Now I can't get the damn thing of out the CD player and consequently out of my head. The band is a strange mix of all that has come before it, weather it be CSN, Beach Boys, Appalachia, and even some sort of strange nod to 50's white bread harmonies, a la the Fleetwoods. Whatever it is, it is totally captivating. I love having a favorite CD, and this year it will be Fleet Foxes.
 Beautiful music but will do little for our struggling economy October 10, 2008
10 out of 72 found this review helpful
This is really such a shimmeringly beautiful, almost elegiac, album. But, honestly, in times such as this (specifically, now (for those of you who may be reading this a few years from now)), we need help with our economy any way we can get it. Now, I know music can only do so much (especially since it's just music), but I feel like we need to support the music artists that most help boost our countrie's economic station even if the differences between artists in this regard is very very slight. We need all the help we can get!
Well, Fleet Fox (or is it Foxes? I'm not sure which), as you notice, create very laid back folky music. I feel like this runs the risk of influencing a certain laid backness that our country really can't weather right now. I feel like New Order or someone like daft Punk who use technology in their music and have to take classes to learn their instruments and have to have software and flow charts and such things to do their music are therefore more like to influence a swelling economy.
Fleet F's are on Sub-Pop. This is the label Nirvana(s) started on. Their lead vocalist, Kurt Cobain, killed himself. If you think about it, killing oneself is like committing economic suicide. Sure, you're not spending any more money, but you're not bringing in any either to yourself. That kind of philosophy that Sub-Pop upholds can't be spread through our fragile nation right now. Again, there are other artists like Jay-Z or Usher etc. who aren't on Sub-Pop and not doing that stuff.
They also have a song "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" that someone could get the idea that tigers and peasants... Well, anyway, you get the idea. It's frightening to even think about it, even as unlikely as it is to happen. The fact that it COULD happen is enough to stay away from this album.
But if you really, really can't stay away from this album, do it in such a way that the economy doesn't "know" if that makes any sense.
FYI Modest Mouse is probably statistically about the best (if any music can really be called the best) for this particular sub-prime crash/over-leveraged credit lethal combination our nation's going through right now.
OKAY: I'VE GOTTEN A 0 of 8 HELPFUL ON THIS SO FAR? YOU KIDDING ME? I PUT IN THE TIME TO REVIEW THIS FOR YOU? AND DO YOU NOT CARE ABOUT THE ECONOMY?
OKAY II: THIS REVIEW ONLY HAS 8 OF 54 HELPFUL RATING!!? WHAT? I DON'T DO THESE REVIEWS FOR MY HEALTH. I LISTEN TO THE MUSIC, I DO RESEARCH, AND I TAKE THE TIME TO DO THESE FOR YOU GUYS. WELL, I SURE HOPE YOU DON'T GIVE OBAMA AN 8 FOR 54 HELPFUL ON ELECTION DAY. IF YOU DO, HE'LL LOSE THE ELECTION AND THE PRESIDENCY RIGHT ALONG WITH IT.
i seriously cant stop listening to it October 10, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
unbelievable. hauntingly beautiful and elegant. Quiet Houses is almost constantly stuck in my head. Buy this album. Don't download it. They DESERVE you're money!
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