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Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_XXismYUZs] “The Shrine/An Argument” Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues. Sub Pop, May 3, 2011. I drove up from California to Oregon with an iPod full of music I had never heard before, so I’m processing way more music than I can reasonably write about, but I wanted to say something about the new Fleet Foxes record,…
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Real Estate Real Estate
The New Jersey band Real Estate’s self titled debut album mines some of the same ground that we can also hear in the work of Fleet Foxes and Animal Collective. It’s too simplistic to call this music “surf-rock revival” or to limit their musical forebears to The Beach Boys, but there are grains of truth…
