 Genius Meanings
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – The Plains / Bitter Dancer
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Phil Ek, producer of Helplessness Blues revealed that the ending bit of The Plains / Bitter Dancer was written by Robin in Port Townsend, 50 miles outside Seattle, in late 2008
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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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