Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes
Mining the same vein that took them to the glorious heights of their debut, Helplessness Blues sees Fleet Foxes’ multi-harmonising, densely layered folk take another leap forward. Two years spent on the road delayed this eagerly awaited follow-up but it has infused the music with a broader worldview, lifting Pecknold & co. out of the backwoods. The songs often struggle within the constraints of traditional structure, and break out unexpectedly into something altogether different. While ‘Lorelai’ channels Dylan’s 4th Time Around a little too closely for comfort, this is still the follow-up that Fleet Foxes fans dared to dream of.
Standout Tracks: Helplessness Blues, Grown Ocean, Lorelai
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