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Fleet Foxes – Featherweight
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[Verse 1] / All this time I've been hanging on / To an edge I caught when we both were young / That the world I won wasn't near enough / Always distant, always all / In all that
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Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up
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[Verse 1] / So the mind won't lie / And the arm won't set / And the bright red eye / Isn't off you yet / So the words won't come / And the hand won't touch / And a midnight sun
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Fleet Foxes – English House
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English House is the longest and most obviously rock songs, which comprises the EP’s rising action and reveal more of Fleet Foxes' range.
It is a graceful downward rush of guitars
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Fleet Foxes – Sunblind
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[Verse 1] / For Richard Swift / For John and Bill / For every gift lifted far before its will / Judee and Smith / For Berman too / I've met the myth hanging heavy over you / I
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Fleet Foxes – Ragged Wood
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[Intro] / Woah-ho-oh / Woah-ho-oh / [Verse 1] / Come down from the mountain, you have been gone too long / The spring is upon us, follow my ornate song / Settle down with me by the
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Fleet Foxes – Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
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[Verse 1] / Wanderers this morning came by / Where did they go, graceful in the morning light? / To banner fair, to follow you softly / In the cold mountain air / [Verse 2
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Fleet Foxes – Oliver James
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Fleet Foxes ends with Oliver James, another nearly a cappella showcase for Pecknold’s solo vocals. As he thumps out a soft rhythm on his Martin acoustic, he sings about handmade
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Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
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“Mykonos” doesn’t travel as far as its title suggests, but thrives on the tension between Robin Pecknold’s wordless vocal intro and the band’s intricate harmonies. Of course, it
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Fleet Foxes – Can I Believe You
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Can I Believe You is the third track on Fleet Foxes' 2020 album Shore, released on 9/22/20.
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Fleet Foxes – Montezuma
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Robin Pecknold writes in a style rich with imagery and symbolism. Much of his work might better be described as representation of feelings and emotion rather than any one
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Fleet Foxes – Grown Ocean
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It’s been said that there’s nothing duller than listening to someone else describe their dreams, but from the first heraldic strums of Grown Ocean, the closer on Fleet Foxes
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Fleet Foxes – Meadowlarks
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Vocals play such a primary role in Fleet Foxes' music that Robin Pecknold’s lyrics at times sound like merely a delivery system for harmonies, with references to meadowlarks
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Fleet Foxes – I'm Not My Season
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[Verse 1] / Blood of my blood / Skin of my skin / You're in roundelay water again / I want to face the condition you're in / The old wrenches hardly turn me / Can you catch a
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Fleet Foxes – Quiet Houses
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[Verse 1] / Lay me down, lay me down / Lay me down, lay me down / Darkening, darkening / Darkening, darkening / Darkening, darkening / Darkening, darkening / [Verse 2] / Come to me
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Fleet Foxes – Lorelai
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With lyrics that poetically explore slowly coming to terms with a break-up, “Lorelai” bears a striking musical resemblance to Bob Dylan’s anti-plagiarism anthem “4th Time Around”.
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Fleet Foxes – The Shrine / An Argument
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“The Shrine / An Argument” clocks in at 8 minutes, far longer than anything Fleet Foxes have done before. But it perfectly encapsulates all of the strengths of Helplessness Blues
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Fleet Foxes – He Doesn't Know Why
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[Verse 1] / Penniless and tired with your hair grown long / I was looking at you there and your face looked wrong / Memory is a fickle siren's song / I didn't understand / In the
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Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
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At or near the top of every “top songs of 2011” listicle, “Helplessness Blues” is the lament of a boy who thinks he’s special growing into a man who recognizes, painfully, that
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Fleet Foxes – Maestranza
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[Verse 1] / Monday night / Loud in the road outside / I saw the gate coming down / And smoke all around / The south hill / These last days / Con-men controlled my fate / No one is
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Fleet Foxes – Sim Sala Bim
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“Sim Sala Bim” is the third track off of Fleet Foxes' 2011 album Helplessness Blues. In the song, singer Robin Pecknold tells the story of a man who is left his partner. The
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Fleet Foxes – Third of May / Ōdaigahara
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“Third of May / Ōdaigahara” is the first single off Fleet Foxes' third album Crack-Up.
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Fleet Foxes – Going-to-the-Sun Road
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[Verse 1: Robin Pecknold] / Due west at a blind day's end, flying pavement underfoot / Some horizon eyeing me up, often does right at dusk / Often known it wore that look / [Chorus
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Fleet Foxes – Bedouin Dress
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[Verse 1] / If to borrow is to take and not return / I have borrowed all my lonesome life / And I can't, no, I can't get through / The borrower's debt is the only regret of my
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Fleet Foxes – Cassius, –
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Gaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman senator who was involved in the plot to betray and kill Julius Caesar. Based on the album’s many allusions to the Classics and biblical imagery
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Fleet Foxes – If You Need to, Keep Time on Me
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This song is a continuation of Robin detailing his relationship with Skye. But stripping it back to a simple music analogy: that if they are on stage together, they will “keep time
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Fleet Foxes – Sun It Rises
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Smartly enough, the album opener is a song about a sunrise. It begins with a short tune (titled Red Squirrel on early leaks but not listed on the CD) that could be a field
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Fleet Foxes – On Another Ocean (January / June)
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[January] / [Dorian] / [Verse 1] / Biding your time / On the other ocean / Falling into line / In the cold and dim / [Chorus] / Wherever you run / You see all you leave behind you
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Fleet Foxes – Wading in Waist-High Water
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[Verse 1] / Summer all over / Blame it on timing / Weakening August water / Loose-eyed in morning / Sunlight covered over / Wading in sight of fire / [Chorus 1] / And we're finally
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Fleet Foxes – Someone You'd Admire
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“Someone You’d Admire” loses itself in the combination of Pecknold’s gentle croon and a hollow-sounding acoustic.
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Fleet Foxes – Fool's Errand
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[Verse 1] / I knew you fine, sight dream of mine / But I know my eyes, they've often lied / And I move like blood, like fire and flood / Despite you / [Verse 2] / Blind love couldn
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Fleet Foxes – Sun Giant
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The opening track on Fleet Foxes‘ EP is the perfect introduction to this Seattle band, whose carefully fashioned songs reward more active listening than your typical indie-roots
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Fleet Foxes – For a Week or Two
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Some lost coast / Some bright days / No face on your young head / Piece of wheat / In your teeth / Carrying water, pears, and bread / And you're close to some surrender / You can
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Fleet Foxes – Quiet Air / Gioia
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Quiet Air / Gioia is the 11th track on Fleet Foxes' 2020 album, Shore.
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Fleet Foxes – Young Man's Game
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Young Man’s Game is the ninth track on Fleet Foxes' album, Shore, released 9/22/20.
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Fleet Foxes – Kept Woman
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A “kept woman” is one who exchanges food and shelter for sexual favors. This appears to describe Anna, the object of the song. Anna being “lost, in a shadow” could mean that
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Fleet Foxes – Blue Spotted Tail
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The song features Pecknold taking an existentialist perspective and considering how meaningless life is. It comes after “The Shrine/An Argument,” where Pecknold sings about a lover
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Fleet Foxes – A Long Way Past the Past
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[Verse 1] / More than I had in mind / More than I wish I knew / And now it’s near on me / Some rush of red fear / And my worst old times look fine from here / [Verse 2] / I know
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Fleet Foxes – Drops in the River
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After the quiet title track comes Drops in the River, which builds gradually as the band patiently add instruments– strange ambient clattering in the background and simple floor
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Fleet Foxes – Thymia
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[Verse 1] / Pair of tin cups rolling in the backseat / Rustle like a mallet on a downbeat / Rain will make rust, water on the concrete / [Verse 2] / Have a true love, more than
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Fleet Foxes – Battery Kinzie
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Battery Kinzie is a concrete fort that was built to protect Puget Sound.
There is a reference to the US Marines hymn on the album’s opener, “Montezuma to Tripoli”, Battery Kinzie
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Fleet Foxes – - Naiads, Cassadies
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[The storm suddenly breaks] / [In a car, on the coast] / [Verse 1] / Who stole the life from you? / Who turned you so against you? / Who was the thief, who shaved your teeth
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Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
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“White Winter Hymnal” is the first single from Fleet Foxes’s debut 2008 self-titled album. The B-side is the non-album track “Isles”.
Time critic Josh Tyrangiel named this the #5
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Fleet Foxes – Mearcstapa
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[At sail on open ocean] / [Verse 1] / Two lines in the air / Two eyes on the pair / Mearcstapa, on an open sea / But you turn away / No falling today / No wind in the night / You'
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