Fleet Foxes

Insanely pretentious late 00's folk-rock, its an album grown in a lab to appeal to me specifically. Of course I love it! 5/5

this blew my mind when it was released. was so sonically expansive and evocative of how i feel when in wild, open spaces.

Seattle grunge took a shower, quit the hard stuff, and went on a camping retreat, discovering that harmonizing was permitted and peaceful.

No me gustó

Boring uninspired folk 2/5

I’ve tried getting into Fleet Foxes in the past. I’ve listened to this album twice before, but on this listen I liked them a little more. The acoustic arrangements are very pretty and there are great vocals. This album hasn’t quite hit my favourites, but maybe it will grown on me some more. 3.5/5 Favourite track: Blue Ridge Mountains

2010s yoi will live on forever

V pretty - 3.7

This album is right up my alley with many songs I loved already. Listening to the entire album made me love them more. Blue Ridge Mountains might be my favorite but Quiet Houses was an amazing hidden gem.

Wonderful!!

This album is sonically gorgeous

Los primeros temas del álbum me gustaron más que los últimos, pero estuvo bien.

sasma neloš indi pop-folk album, na trenutke baš lijep (»white winter hymnal«, »oliver james«!). kratak i slatak, no nije me toliko oduševio da bude za četvorku. možda preslušam još jednom pa promijenim mišljenje: nabolje ili nagore... [odslušao i napisao 12/10/26]

I just don’t think I’ll ever really enjoy this band. Sorry! It’s just so … placid?

Good bout nothing that stands out

good but borrrring.

Bien

Sun It Rises - 4/5 White Winter Hymnal - 4/5 Ragged Wood - 4.5/5 Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - 4/5 Quiet Houses - 4/5 He Doesn't Know Why - 4/5 Heard Them Stirring - 3.5/5 Your Protector - 4/5 Meadowlarks - 3.5/5 Blue Ridge Mountains - 4.5/5 Oliver James - 3.5/5 A solid debut for music to be listened to watching the sun rise/set over the wilderness. I don't think it progress past "it sounds pretty nice" for me but that's how folk seems to me. Overall: 4/5 Favorites: Ragged Wood, Blue Ridge Mountains

01) Sun It Rises - 7,5 02) White Winter Hymnal - 10,0 03) Ragged Wood - 8,0 04) Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - 8,5 05) Quiet Houses - 7,5 06) He Doesn't Know Why - 8,0 07) Heard Them Stirring - 8,5 08) Your Protector - 7,0 09) Meadowlarks - 7,5 10) Blue Ridge Mountains - 7,5 11) Oliver James - 7,0 TOTAL: 7,91 (79/100) Current ranking: 316/1062

Not an album I listened to on release despite it being my prime era for listening to music. I really enjoyed my listen today and wish I had listened back in 2008! It sounded so well produced, lovely folk like harmonies almost like it was recorded in the Canadian mountains. I heard and felt Simon and Garfunkel throughout the album and that was a great plus! Best track- the absolutely flawless ‘your protector’ but could have been a few others on another day- ‘ragged wood’ ‘meadowlarks’ and ‘white winter hymnal’ I loved too. Worst track- ‘he doesn’t know why’ and as the title says I don’t know why but I had to pick one. Very solid album, I really enjoyed and looking forward to listening again 9/10

Fleet Foxes You can almost smell the patchouli oiled neckbeards from here. Didn't really get this indie-chamber-folk thing at the time and I don't now, I'm afraid. I get that it is lovingly crafted and produced with real care. But you can take pretty bits and pieces from the Beach Boys, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Van Duke Parks and so on and mix it all together, but if the songs just don't have any hook, any pull, then it's like all icing and no cake. One long mush where it was impossible to pick out one track from another. Best Track - Meadowlarks Worst Track - Oliver James 3.5/10

A pretty solid album, I am glad I got this one in the fall, rather than summer. Some nice harmonies and good songs, but not something I would really find myself returning too. Low 4.

Indie Rock in the 2000s reinvented itself in a lot of different directions. One of those is Indie Folk. Fleet Foxes along with Bright Eyes, Bon Iver, and Iron and Wine were the most prominent Indie folk bands. Fleet Foxes differentiated themselves by being as pretentious as possible and boring at the same time. Just a joyous slug through 39 minutes of repetition. The follow up album, Helpnessness Blues, would’ve been better suited for inclusion. Drummer Josh Tillman joined and added some much-needed levity and fun to proceedings then promptly left for presumably greener pastures. I wonder what happened to that guy.

Really enjoyable indie folk-rock album. I like the airy, dreamlike instrumentation throughout this. There’s also great harmonies, although sometimes I wish parts were a little more tuneful. Still really good.

Montage music for when you're on a lonely quest

Bloody loved this. On a couple of tracks the vocals reminded me a bit of Fyfe Dangerfield from Guillemots, who is one of my favourite singers so definitely not a bad thing. A great album with nothing even close to a dud track on it. I’ll be getting stuck into the rest of their discography after this. Top Track - Ragged Wood

More dreaded folk, but now the 21st century version. Surely I am due for some more punk or pop or simply anything else?!?!?? On a side note, the other 2008 album I can think of that I've had recently from the Generator was a bit meh (Goldfrapp), so I don't have particularly high hopes for this at the outset. Although I did quite like Elbow, so there's that...... Whilst well executed (nice vocals, competent playing) this is simply too dull to leave any lasting impression on this listener. Happy enough to have heard it once, but also happy never to hear it again.

It's really difficult to assign a 4 or 5 for this album. Since it's not an obvious 5 stars, I'll call it a 4. But it's a beautifully written, composed, arranged and played album. Such a beautiful combination of something that can be listened to in the background or intensely listening and engaging with it. 4.5 stars if I could.

Today is a Sunday and actually that is a perfect day for this record as some of the harmonies would fit quite nice in a church.I have tried this album multiple times over the years as for some reasons I am thinking that I should really like and dig this. But always left with a feeling that it did not grab me and the harmony singing even annoyed me. Tried this again few times again and my opinion switch from 2 to 4 stars and back to 2. The album is beautiful produced, the acoustic guitars sound so clear and fresh. And yes they have beautiful voices. So I almost try to force myself to like this and yes sometimes that happens but other times not and I get either bored or annoyed.

Rather enjoyed it at the start, then the stomp clap hey vibe kinda just all got a little monotonous. Definitely good though.

Та хуйня которую слушали хипстеры в своих красных клеточных рубашечках сидя в старбаксах типа на вайбике с макбуком в 2011 году. Крутая обложка, музыка boring ass shite

Listen to this album to add some whimsy to your life. Serene vocal arrangements with beautiful song writing make for a great pair. I'd be willing to give this album 5 stars if it wasn't for the fact that I know how good later releases are. This one still stands firmly in their catalog and is an incredible debut album for any band, and should be celebrated. I'm only giving it 4 stars because I believe they were to improve so much over the rest of their catalog with this as a starting point.

I appreciated this album cause it had a large than life sound at times and it made for good background music. With that said, I really didn't feel like this connected much to me, nor did I feel like it really varied much (all the songs kinda melted in together for me)

YES. An absolute favorite. The cover says it all: renaissance picture that, upon deeper inspection, reveals more odd/twisted things than you’d expect. Robin pecknold’s voice is amazing. Father John misty started off as the drummer. Just no skips.

This is far too saccharine for my taste 😐 Two stars…

Absolutely lush production and all in service of incredibly boring music to snooze off to. Just very tiring indie folk. Also, I’m gonna be biased against it in rating anyway because it feels like the key that unlocks a whole wave of artists and songs that were everywhere when I was a teenager that I didn’t like, and that I still don’t really like for their sort of softly-conservative retvrn pastoralist energy.

Lovely but sleep inducing

Chords & blend are the real stars of this album. I do not have enough flannels in my closet or IPAs in my cooler to fully enjoy this, but can admit that it was enjoy*able*. It kinda drags in a way that makes me not want to take it seriously, though. Highlight: He Doesn't Know Why

Such a grand, yet intimate sounding album. This album takes me away. 4.5/5.

Not bad, folksy.

nice and calming!

Fine

Beautiful tunes

I think I liked this more bc I was in the car during sunset so it was kind of a vibe. Not typically a huge fan of this indie folk style

A little bit millennial but still good! Kind of for a specific vibe but fits that vibe well

3,5 Highlights: White Winter Hymnal, Tiger Mountain Peasant Song

One of the easiest 5 stars for me to award. I absolutely LOVED Fleet Foxes and this album - played it over and over and over again. Incredible harmonies and beautiful songs - banjos, gentle percussion................. Music is all about opinions - surely if this project teaches us anything, it's that - but if you do not like this album then I WILL JUDGE YOU. Also, IYKYK, "STEPHEN!"

Some of the most forgettable music of this century but pleasant enough.

Great album honestly just perfect like driving music and you listen to this, or just going on a walk. Just a song you want to be hearing out in nature. 9/10

Atmospheric

The weird thing about this album is that instead of Oliver James, my music streaming service had He Doesn't Know Why repeated but it deceivingly had the 'right' name. I only recognized that something was wrong thanks to the "Twenty dollars in your hand..." line, not being immediately ready to tell that I was hearing the same track again. This is telling. There are two major problems with Fleet Foxes' self-titled album: it's way too generic and utterly uneven in quality. The beginning, for instance, made little to no sense to me. Then at times they do manage to catch the good sound, resulting in the better examples, Tiger Mountain Peasant Song, Heard Them Stirring, and Your Protector. The way they compose this lightweight Life Is Strange soundtrack-like songs can be promising, but unfortunately much of the material here is just instantly forgettable. The guitar use is over-simplistic in multiple tracks, to a degree that starts to be annoying; the vocals are uneven and do worsen the sound in some moments. Perhaps this is why I liked Heard Them Stirring with its non-lyrical vocals more. On average, the album sounds like all those alt bands loved by teenage girls, I don't know, like Kings of Leon's worst works, or Radiohead's weaker works that are commonly described as boring, or rather all these countless lo-fi music acts. Sadly, the group surpasses this in a smaller proportion of the tracks. Even if we were to say that this is not my favourite music style, we have to admit that the tracks lack originality and there was no reason for the band to stay within those boundaries rather than try and express themselves some more, explore further. As a result, this is just two stars.

Love it , nostalgic, foxes ,medival, adore the instrumental, in the meadows, high dictionary for me ig gotta google some of it . Love the art of the album cover . Easiest listen . My taste

Quite a pleasant folk sound, but lacking an original voice… the songs were pleasant but missing any originality, but an album I could easily listen to on a lazy sunday

a beautiful autumnal album

I didn't notice it happening at the time, but I was definitely digging into the trend of folky rock that started to become popular about the time that this album dropped. That trend later week into the '10s and produced some amazing acts. I'll admit that I didn't pay as close attention to this album when it came out or, honestly, when I listened to it yesterday. What I did catch when I was, was a not half bad album. I think for me to give it a fair shake, I'll have to give it another listen or two.

Not listened to this album but I like fleet Foxes in general, so this was good

Not my jam

great album

Ehh a few nice songs here, but I found it a bit too soft and repetitive. Good for folk music though

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Oh soothe me with your far away voices

Favorite Song: Sun It Rises Least Favorite: Meadowlarks

Nah

Pleasantly non-descript

Maybe it's coincidence or maybe it's the overlords, but I just saw a post yesterday recommending this album! I really like it even though it's a bit redundant. I would categorize it as good Mountain music, best for an outdoor venue.

I liked the vocal quality and harmonies in this. Also liked the music in general, though the album as a whole felt like it was missing something, though I'm not sure exactly what. Maybe depth, or some kind of theme?

I sure didn't hate it!

fantasy music, seems repetitive and dragged out at certain points making a couple songs feel too long

Far too "twee" for me. I'll pass. I'm sure this music has been used in many sleepy films and TV shows.

Man this is gonna make me need a cigarette when it turns 20. What a huge album in the development of my musical taste as a lad.

Very well produced, beautiful album cover, chill and relaxing but not especially memorable. Kinda like this review, I suppose.

It was ok. 3

was alright

Not my cup of tea

Are these guys okay? Some of the saddest sounding songs. Hauntingly beautiful vocals, folksy guitars, reminds me of a small Appalachian town

I didn't listen to the whole thing, but I'll be honest and say I don't get it. They're talented, but I'm not interested. I don't like the far away vocals. I don't understand why this very 70s sounding group was even successful in 2008. Except for the resurgence of folk/hipster movement during/after that time. I guess this was an early part of that movement?

I feel like this should be a higher rank if I spent more time with it. There's obvious care going into these songs, and some nice indie rock homages to Americana music. But I didn't latch onto any of the melodies enough to recall them a day later. Ill have to try again later.

This one is pleasant enough albeit boring. It’s chill and well-produced, but nothing stands out about it. It reminds me of Coldplay, especially vocally, but without the hooks. It’s very innocuous: I don’t hate it and I don’t love it.

I can argue a 2 and/or a 4 on this one. But given the year it came out I’m going with the 4.

why don't they play this at the club Would I listen again: yes! Deserves to be on this list: modern indie classic. 4.4

Wholesome

Beautiful harmonies. A bit too gentle across the whole album for me though.

Medio pelo. Agradable al oido, pero no lo escucharia. Meh total. 5/10

Let’s do a Pentatonix album (dramatically puts on sunglasses) . . . indie-style. You know in movies and TV shows where someone says something that could be interpreted as possibly involving romantic interaction and another character goes “boom chicka wow wow,” referencing vaguely funky instrumental music that was used to score pornographic movies in the late 20th century and so became associated in popular culture with sex? Fleet Foxes is like the opposite of that. It is the sound of softness. My friends got together last weekend and one of them described a story he heard on NPR about “gooning” which he said is when teenage boys get together and engage in marathon sessions of group masturbation (I don’t think he was trying to subtly suggest a potential activity for our boy’s weekend but now that the thought has occurred to me I am somewhat concerned). I expect that if there were instead “anti-gooning” events, where men got together and tried to remain as visibly non-interested in sex as humanly possible that they would put on this album and have no issues at all. Not to be crass, but this is limp dick music. It’s aggressively non-sexual. It’s like aliens came to earth from a planet where reproduction is achieved through sporogenesis and decided to make an earnest indie folk album full of pastoral harmonies, acoustic instrumentation and reverb. And then everybody was like, “yeah that’s a really pretty album xyZufX-24, but, like, do any of you guys have dicks?” and the aliens were just like “what?” It’s not that I want to sit around in a state of constant tumescence while listening to music, but it would be nice to have the option.

This is a chill album, but I found it quite boring.

I really enjoyed this, every song was enjoyable!

Normally, don't listen to this style of music, but I really, really enjoyed this album. It feels like a porch on a crisp autumn day + a cup of joe + a warm blanket in the NE.

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crap

Wrong time

Fleet Foxes' music conveys the timeless, rustic beauty of nature and its feeling of freedom and calmness. The variety of the songs mirror the often mysterious traits of nature, from the intense darkness of "Your Protector", emphasised by its lurking flute, and the wistful, brotherly "Blue Ridge Mountains". Indeed, these almost medieval ballads are adorned by free-flowing harmonies and alluring, lush instrumentation, creating a vivid natural landscape one can't help but be immersed in.

Am a sucker for this album - that (pseudo)-intellectual vibe and those tight harmonies.

Gave me pleasant teenage memories of ripping CDs, converting YouTube to mp3 files, and finding artwork from the Internet for saving onto iTunes albums. Lovely. Inoffensive late 00s soft indie, before the whole genre was infected too heavily by stomp clap hey ho.

we really lived in a cultural wilderness in the late 00s, didn't we

I liked the harmonies and themes on this.

Thoroughly enjoyed this album!! enchanting folk-y riffs and great production. And having a breugel as the album artwork was the cherry on the cake. This album is going to become a staple in my rotation for years to come

A little wailey but not bad

Ok

I am completely down with this. I want to go for a walk somewhere cold, folourn, and beautiful. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song was especially... something.

White winter hymnal has been a favorite of mine for years