As we near the end of June — and thus the end of the first half of 2011 — I’m going to post a bunch of my favorite songs of the year so far.
To see them all, click here. And to read about my favorite albums of 2011 so far, click here.
Posts Tagged ‘Fleet Foxes’
The Best Songs of 2011 So Far: Robin Pecknold, “I’m Losing Myself” (feat. Ed Droste)
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
stream Fleet Foxes’ “Helplessness Blues” in its entirety
Monday, April 25th, 2011
the best thing I’ve heard so far this year …
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
I mentioned this on Frequency’s Facebook the other day, but had no link to provide. Well, I’ve since found a link, but it’s a Soundcloud, so it could go away at any time, so you should just go ahead and listen right now.
Why?
Because I’ve listened to several great albums in the first quarter of 2011 (look for a roundup coming soon), but the best thing I’ve heard so far this year is a three-song EP of stray tracks that Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold released for free via his Twitter account several weeks back.
This stuff is gorgeous. The first — an aching duet with Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste — is my favorite. The second is a beautiful Simon & Garfunkelian tune that features some of Pecknold’s trademark vocal soarin’. The third is a cover of an old song from the ’70s by New Zealand folkie Chris Thompson.
The overall sound of the three songs is very influenced by ’60s/’70s British folk, with a totally vintage vibe, like you’re listening to old, timeworn Bert Jansch records on a dusty thrift-store turntable.
Of course, streaming these songs on Soundcloud is like the exact opposite of that, but it’ll have to do:
Robin Pecknold tracks by One Thirty BPM
(Psst: The upcoming Fleet Foxes album sorta might’ve shown up magically in my iTunes and it is terrific. Friends, Pecknold is well on his way to becoming one of our finest songwriters. Dude is for real.)
(Photo courtesy Martijn vdS)
new Fleet Foxes song: “Helplessness Blues”
Monday, January 31st, 2011
Now this is the right way to start a Monday. Here’s a new song from Fleet Foxes called “Helplessness Blues,” from the band’s sophomore album of the same name, due out May 3 on Subpop Records. (They also announced a show at Portland’s Crystal Ballroom on May 1.)
Fleet Foxes’ 2008 debut is one of my favorite records of the past few years, and I’ve been waiting to hear their next step ever since. This is a very promising start.
Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold covers Neutral Milk Hotel
Monday, July 13th, 2009
It would be easy to play cooler-than-thou and make fun of the blogasm happening this morning because of this song.
But I won’t do that. Or rather, I can’t do that, because I’ll be too busy listening to this over and over and over and over. And you can too, thanks to this download right here:
Robin Pecknold, “Two-Headed Boy” (Neutral Milk Hotel cover)
The entire set is at Chocolate Bobka, where you can read about when and where and why this was played, at least until music nerds everywhere crash the dude’s site.
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