Thursday, 12 February 2009

Music Review.


FLEET FOXES: FLEET FOXES
This American yodelaic 5 piece set up offer no more than background easy listening. There's nothing ground breaking and to be honest I actually nearly fell asleep listening to it. They seem to have a feasible choir like charm about them.
Lead singer Robin Pecknold does do his job well, his echo like vocals bring out the essence of what this Bill Withers influenced band are trying to achieve. They are tight with doped up yawnful harmony. Listening to the album I found them a bit of a one trick pony with each track starting or ending with an oooooh or an aaaaahhh in their exploitable fashion.
Not my cup of tea and nothing really catchy about this album apart from the radio one milked track "White Winter Hymnal". The acoustic number "Blue ridge Mountain" has to be mentioned. It did tickle my fancy, purely because it was something a little different from the rest of the album. It had plausible simplistic charm about it. The album overall does offer great fluidity and is produced very well. There's something raw and mention ably rustic about it. If you get a listen, listen with open ears and without pungent musical ignorance. Then I'm sure you'll get their gist.
Marco Abonandi

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