The band's from Seattle. They're still playing very small clubs (the Berlin venue holds only about 150, if that) but won't be for much longer, by the sound of it.
Anyone else know them?
http://www.myspace.com/fleetfoxes
They're all beautiful songs, especially 'Mykonos' (especially when the harmonies kick in on the 2:12 mark), but Balzer said that nothing on the album, their first, had prepared him for how powerful they are live.
The average age of the band members is twenty.
“We grew up listening to the music of our parents,” Robin notes, “The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, The Zombies, Joni Mitchell, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Love, Marvin Gaye, Bach, Crosby Stills & Nash, Bob Dylan, Buffalo Springfield, and every other perennial ‘60s band you’d expect to find in the record collections of baby boomers.” (One of us is named after a Steely Dan record, for Christ’s sake…)"
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"To me, the most enjoyable thing in the world is to sing harmony with people, so we do that a bunch. We love acoustic guitars, electric guitars, big rolling tom drums, mandolins, dulcimers, bass guitars, bass pedals, organs, pianos, kotos, and most of all harmony and melody. We’ve succeeded for ourselves if we’ve made a song where every instrument is doing something interesting and melodic. We try to draw from the traditions of folk music, pop, choral music and gospel, baroque psychedelic, sacred harp singing, West Coast music, traditional music from Ireland to Japan, and film scores, and are inspired by the music of our friends and contemporaries in the Seattle music family.”
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“All we strove for with this record was to make something that was an honest reflection of who we are, citizens of the western United States who love all kinds of music and above all else love singing…"
http://www.subpop.com/bio/fleet_foxes
'Your Protector' (Tom-tom drums, bell-toned guitar, Hammond organ and flute...)
