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 over rated by music snobs August 16, 2008
T. J. Risdale (worcestershire, England)
12 out of 21 found this review helpful
Oh my goodness !!! I studied the reviews and thought hey, some amazing new music to spruce up my rather ecclectic record collection. I have never considered myself a bore with my personal music taste but this was possibly one of the worst purchases I have made. This album will be at my local charity shop as I type these words !!
I could not really fault the musicians ability in playing their music, the drums and guitar are in fact pretty good. But oh god, the singing and harmonies mixed with the recording techniques make this record sound like a beach boys demo 8 track that was produced in a californian public toilet.
The album starts of in a vaguely interesting manner which by track 3 reaches a peak of unchanging boredom that lasts until the very end of the last track.
Save yourself a tenner and listen to some beach boys B-sides, these foxes are far from fleet more like dawdling!
 Loup The Loups August 2, 2008
Mr. S. Rawcliffe (Accrington, England)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Steeleye Span meet America in a wonderful synthesis. There's not a bad track on this album which drips with haunting melodies. Best band of the new Millennium IMHO.....'White Winter Hymnal' is the Koh-I Noor of the jewel box........
 7/10 July 22, 2008
Marley's Ghost (Stafford, UK)
Despite all the cross referencing on here to CSN and Brian Wilson, this actually sounds like My Morning Jacket meets Peter, Paul & Mary (esp covering John Denver's "Leaving On A Jet Plane"). There are a few outstanding tracks on here (really outstanding) but tracks 4 to 7 are a little on the weak side and needed some help. I'm not saying they're poor just that the band needed to take some time to get a better running order as there's a bit of a hole in the middle. Perhaps the excellent "Your Protector" should have been moved forward.
However, a very good album and worth shelling out for.
There are some people saying that Fleet Foxes are America's next big thing. I'd just like to point out that at places on this album I'm fleetingly (excuse pun) put in mind of Animal Collective at their most conservative. At that point you have to start putting things in perspective.
A classic that others will try to imitate July 18, 2008
Mr. P. Arrowsmith (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is not often I come back and review an album, and you can read my first thoughts below. Oliver James, the last track reminds me of She's Leaving Home by the Beatles. It is fact. Life ain't always peaches and cream.
This album is unique. It is different. It is not your usual four verses and a chorus and a middle eight, with a rock beat, or a disco beat, or any beat, so don't try dancing to it. It is a group of musicians that seem to take a title and words and then going where they want musically, enjoying themselves along the way. Who does it sound like? Everybody and nobody. I can hear CSN&Y and as solo artists, I can hear The Beach Boys, I can hear Paul Simon. I can hear some Gregorian Chants. It is all over the place encased in baroque folk rock songs, what the hell is that you might say. I don't know and I still don't so I will keep listening. That is why I gave this album 5 out of 5 stars. It has opened up wonderful, creative new ideas and thoughts about what music is and what it can be. Thank you Fleet Foxes.
Top Drawer July 16, 2008
Mr. John Heath (Guildford UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
What planet does SunRa live on. This band are absolutely brilliant. OK so they have taken CSN&Y, Neil Young as reference points but then again nearly every contemporary band have taken yesteryear's bands as references for their music because popular music has never been bettered since then for sheer quality or output. Applause for tight harmonies, subtle chord changes and beautiful melodies. Also bearing in mind this is their first album, EP excepted, which is also brilliant, and it is a blistering outcome. Undoubtedly one of the finest folk-rock albums of recent years.
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