Fleet Foxes

Walgesangartige, belanglose Mehrstimmigkeit, die man schon seit Jahrzehnten GENAU SO gehört hat wie hier (zum Beispiel bei Pink Floyd), als die Platte des Jahres zu verstehen, ist ein musikkritischer Kunstgriff, den mir mal jemand erklären müsste. Nicht ganz schlecht, aber auch kein Mittelmaß.

Cheesy commerical Music, christmas commercial music

it's so mellow man.

Quiet beautiful, but a bit to airy for me when I try to sit through the full album.

I never understood the appeal. Better than Mumford and Sons I guess?

A couple of good tracks but a bit dreary overall

This is gonna be hipster shit hey. Aaaaand yep it's some modern folk crap, a hipster's dream. Fuck this. 2/5.

Mmm not my style

Absolutely hated this, it had everything that I hate about modern folk music. Felt like torture going through this. No favorite or least favorite track this time cause everything equally sucks. Special mention to White Winter Hymnal for being an abysmal song that unfortunately plays in the Public sometimes. Listening to their music makes me angry. Probably my lowest one star rating.

This was dreadful. Painfully trying to sound “retro”, with pitiful results. Instantly forgettable nonsense.

Bad news good news. Bad news is that I still don't like indie psychedelic rock. The good news is this isn't a function of my age. I never have. I'm happier sitting in silence than listening to this.

The little bit I've encountered of this band had me keeping my project paused for almost a week. I'm not looking forward to this one. Let's see if they prove me wrong. Two songs in and it's not going well. They sound like a mashup between the godawful retreats they made us go to in Catholic high school and a bunch of Ren Faire types. Not the OG Ren Faires but the modern corporate "Fantasy" Faires. Like they took an already enshittified experience as their starting point. I suppose it doesn't help that I don't care for their voices. I get that they're good singers and really know their harmony but damn, the tonality and timbre of those voices really hurts my ear. Drenching it in reverb is just the moldy icing on the shit cake. Fuck this. Listened to the whole first song and then began skipping the next ones successively sooner than the one before it. Hit the first three seconds of track #7 and noped out of the rest of the album. I can see there's a lot of talent and skill on display here, too bad it's in the service of sounds that make my skin crawl.

Quite boring. Only a few songs got my attention. Not my kind of music.

God awful pap.

insoportable

didn't earn the cover

this album and I go way back. my art instructor would play this during lessons fairly often, it was a staple alongside Kid A and Illinois. for the first like, 5 times i heard this i thought it was a shitty local Appalachian hipster band. that says a lot doesn't it? i can't stand the vocals. i can't stand Oliver James. it's so... proto stomp clap hey. and it's not their fault for inspiring worse music, but if someone hated Pearl Jam for being the genesis of all the Creeds and Nickelbacks out there, I could not argue against that. deserves to be one of the 1001? it certainly does. doesn't mean i have to be happy about it!!

A great album to cure insomnia.

Trevor likes it. Gives it a 5 star.

I remember when this album dropped and Pitchfork and the burgeoning music blogs all collectively loved it. I didn’t get it then. Still don’t get it. I promise I’m trying.

That sucked! Just a very boring and lethargic album.

Meh

Another soft boring ass album

Maybe I don’t like insie folk that much.

Not my kind of "music".

I think I probably have a copy of this but I couldn’t remember what it sounded like and having listened I didn’t like it, one star. Tom.

this was so boring and lame

No me gustó

Good for a renaissance fair

While I grew up on this era of American folk rock, and have many artists I still listen to today, I had never really listened to Fleet Foxes before. I now know why. Boring, meandering, with not enough meat on the bone or interesting moments to be of any interest. If you want to get into this era of Mainstream folk rock, The Avett Brothers and The Decembrists. Are much better places to start. Highlights here is Blue Mountain Ridge, i.e. the only song I would choose to listen to again.

ASS, I HATE THE BIRD GUY

This one came with glowing reviews, so I was expecting a bit of a gem. Instead I had to wait until the fourth track before hearing anything that felt like genuinely convincing songwriting. The lyrics are supposed to be inspired too… but I really don’t hear it. In the end only a handful of songs feel reasonably listenable to me. Pretty disappointing, especially since I was honestly hoping this might finally be the folk record that would win me over.

3/10

Más folk rock. Misma cagada, diferente color. Cuando escucho esto, solo me puedo imaginar a un bastardo vegano que se cree un elfo mágico, habla con duendes de plástico y tiene hadas en frascos. Lo odio.

Its a good album. But it's nothing new, or that you haven't heard from folk bands in the 60s. All the songs, do tend to blend into eachother. Its a easy, relaxing album to listen to, and I did enjoy it. But even the praise it gets feels a bit overblown. The album goes by quickly, but not in a good way, just seems to pass you by without leaving any type of impact. I know I have been knocking this album, and as it is for me to critique the album, when I can barely play two chords on a guitar. But the high praise it gets, I don't get. It's a good album; that's the height of it, I could listen to it again straight after, and it would be like listening to it again for the first time, as none of the songs left any impression on me. Its a album, for what people think folk music is! I'd say there are many musicians out there today, I can hear influences from, as they are so plain and afraid to take any risks with the songwriting or music. Just play it safe and know it will be played in a coffee shop, or some wanna be indie director will have a song in mind when writing a scene that has been done to death, and while they are travelling through mid America, while he thinks of the pixie dream girl he or she misses... But that's just my thoughts.

millennials trapped in an echo chamber

music for milennials to cry and eat to

komische hipster mukke :/

ну вообще красиво

If Coldplay meets Folk Music

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Feo.

not my cup of tea

Just a bit dull

meowy my baby

Not for me

boring

Nope. Too twee, too banjo for my liking.

I bought this thinking it was something else and hated it. So it’s going to get a bitter bias rating. Very dull

Not my choice

Some kind of nursery rhyme songs.

Good sounding album. Just boring.

Never really understood the hype for this album. It just doesn't work for me.

I am from Seattle, from which this band hails, and I have never heard of them. To me, this is over-produced indie folk pop and I feel like folk music should be more authentic and raw. What can I say - this just doesn’t speak to me.

Wannabe Beatles but 40 years too late This is just the most boring, generic album I have heard in a long time. Zzzz. I felt actual relief when this album finally finished.

Nicht meins.

It’s just ok at best. I definitely don’t see what all the fuss is about. Some of it is alright for a rainy day, other parts are really not my jam. It’s not really “stomp, clap, hey” but it’s in that same vein.

Poor man's Mumford & Sons.

First song was reminiscent of CS&N. Second one is giving a Beach Boys vibe. I’m hoping to hear something beyond the obvious influences. The whole folk “stomp clap yeah” genre is admittedly not my favorite. There’s not a lot to sink your teeth into, it’s blandly mellow. I suppose it’s a good thing to put on if you wanna take a nap. Background music.

The music was too slow for me. Nice acoustic guitar through the album, but not a fan.

n.l.

chill indie rock

1/2

Mediocre. All the songs blended into eachother

This album is absolute pony, never understood the hype at the time and still don't. Reverb drenched warbling over lazy folk instrumentals, I don't any song in this album stood out as a great listen. Very background listening, so much I zoned out. 1/5

Jesus cult chants from deep within a cave.

Oh. More "indie" (TM) music that is backing music for crappy dramas and rom-coms. I bet these guys unironically ironically have mustaches, odd tattoos, and wear silly vests and ugly shoes. They probably also talk about bespoke man-bags and belts. Ugh, I hate music like this. I would give it a zero if I could. Also, why does it not surprise me these dingleberries are from Seattle?

Meh

No band better captures the cheerily anthemic yet hollow, soulless and ultimately ineffectual optimism of the entire Obama-era than Fleet Foxes. The sound of a millennial playing a mandolin makes me want to kill myself.

There's 39 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

Not for me.

Incredibly mediocre!

Klingt als wäre es in den 60er geschrieben worden, aber modern produziert. Nich mein Fall

Sleepy folksy (skip skip no thanks)

This is background music. Fairly underwhelming and boring.

Beyond the album cover nothing remarkable, could be used only as background music while you straighten your hair

boring hipster shit

I don’t really find this album entertaining. It’s underwhelming and boring, they seem to know nothing but repetition.

Listening to this album the word "yikes" came to my mind... YIKES!

Nails on a chalk board. Obviously reviewing music is subjective, like I could listen to this album maybe on another day when I’m in a better mood (for the record I’m not in a bad mood I’m just not in a jubilant mood) and maybe I’d be more open minded about grading folk rock. But I hated it, I played it twice in one day and then I waited a few days before reviewing it so I could listen to it once more to see if I truly did hate this album as much as I thought. But at the end of the day this is an edgeless album. It’s just fluff and sorbitol, no natural sugar. I really mean that, this whole album is boring and melodramatic. It reminds me of people who are narcissistic sociopaths who don’t realize how shallow and vain they are. The most accurate description of this album that I could give to convey both the music and the whole vibe around it would be: “you remember the character from animal house that’s sitting on the steps of the fraternity trying to swoon college girls with his acoustic guitar before Bluto uncontrollably smashes it to pieces. Yah imagine if bluto never saved the day and that same guy got a full studio to make an album. That’s this album.

Folksy, whiney, boring snoozathon. Cover art is cool though. 1001 album worthy: No - 51/93

Unfortunately I could not listen album due to service error((((

aight

Really just alot of nothingness. Only time I was really into it was during ‘Quiet Houses’ and thats because I thought he was saying ‘Donkey Man’ not ‘Don’t give in’. Should’ve called it ‘Quiet Horses’…. I’m here all week

Hearing White Winter Hymnal always inexplicably sends me into a psychopathic rage. It's probably for the best this isn't currently on Spotify. Legalise fox hunting again I say.

Not a big fan of this.

horrible

The Good: If we shorting the band name to FF, than we are forewarned about needing to fast-forward the songs… The Bad: the fact that the band name wasn’t Singing Koalas Into Porn. The Ugly: The look on the koala’s face… I mean, really? This is folk? Or Indie? Or Rock? This is none of the above. This is shit. This was a total waste of my time. This is what has been wrong with society for a while, thinking it is something which it obviously isn’t… Poor koalas deserved better… 1*

Snooze fest. Maybe that’s what they were going for?

Nee. Schrecklich.

I had never heard of Fleet Foxes, and TBH I wished it had remained that way.

Snore fest!

I do NOT like this album. I HATE the songs and wouldn't say I like the singer's voices. I highly recommend that you don't listen to this album.

soort van upbeat gregoriaans... 1 a 2 songs OK, maar dan slaat de verveling keihard toe

Boring

It’s a nope.

Not for me. Couldn't get past 3 tracks

One good song does not make a good album

Hippy bollocks. Dreamy, dreary, ugh. By the time we hear "Ragged wood", things get a little more lively, but it's quite a forgettable song. "Quiet Houses" is a little less dead. The subsequent reversion to monkishness makes me wish the house was quiet. I've finally found a band I hate more than Travis. I hate this album so much. Really awful. I wonder how it made it into the 1001?

Sigh. I feel super critical today. But this one just didn't grab me. Not even a lyric, a line, a melody. Maybe nova scotia has spoiled me, but there's more affective folk in our backyard. Some of the instrumental surprises were interesting, but it was as if they were trying to be retro and new, but had nothing of value to say or add to the timeline of music history. I like music that does something to me emotionally. This doesn't. Even the lyrical repetitions ring hollow to me---rather than emphasis, I hear loops that are caught up in a navel-gazing sense of their own perceived profundity. At the very least I would have liked to have heard a good story or sense of lived understanding of thought/sensation.....

Le premier morceau fait illusion, mais je trouve l'album globalement très ennuyeux. Ce type de musique (vocal prépondérant) ne me touche vraiment pas, mais n'est pas désagréable à écouter par rapport à d'autres. Je ne suis cependant pas allé au bout. => 1.5/5

Turd!!!!

Dull as 3 day old dishwasher

Utter dross. Folk music for people without a soul trying to pretend they have one whilst driving a Range Rover and shopping at Waitrose.

Would I listen to it again: no Is it a no-skip album: no Favorite song: - Least favorite song: all of them Do I like it: no

This did nothing for me.

Not my music

I wasn't a fan at all.

Oh goody! Somebody bought the "Oh Brother!" soundtrack, and became super-earnest.

website didnt save my friggin notes but yeah all of them r ❌ for me i dont like the whineyness and uninteresting folky type echo music yk

Psycho bluegrass, I’ll pass

Perfect soundtrack for a gluten free brewery

I don't like it, it good but is not My style

I get why it’s here but definitely not my bag. Lukewarm indie folk nonsense. Very pretty and atmospheric but also feels bland and empty 2.2/10

Nicht meine Richtung

Like a cd you bought at a folk festival where the music was live and the weed was really good. Once it's not live anymore and the good weed is a distant memory, it just sounds like another folk album. Okay if that's what you want. Forgettable.

Worked in a record shop for this whole decade and I consider most 00s indie to be a war crime

folk albums xd

Definitely not my music taste. Nothing exciting to me about the album. Have no reason to ever go back and listen to it

I feel bad but my opinion hasn't changed: no.

I know what people like about it. Does not work for me.

Ebenfalls zu abgspaced/experimentell für meinen Geschmack

Not for me

Not my type

Somebody shoot those crybabies down

Passed me by, did nothing for me

Boring.

Hate it

Non-descript, generic tripe of the time. Thank god we advanced beyond that only to our detriment though as this music is still accessible. The album up there as one of the stains of human history alongside the invention of the automatic bomb and the Holocaust. Give this one a skip.

Favorite song: White Winter Hymnal This one was tough. There just wasn’t much that stood out to me. Without the track listing, I wouldn’t have realized I was listening to different tracks because so many of them sound so similar.

muy aburrido

E segue mais um disco indie, ou folk, ou folkindie. E não forma nada de relevante para minha experência...

Yuck

It's indie music. I don't need to listen to this. It wasn't good but it is better than some other indie albums. Still stay away from it.

Really did not find any joy with this one.

Nope

For a 39 minute album it sire feels lioe a 2 hour slog to get though.

Can't get into it. Low impact.

This is what all the hype was about ten years ago?! A bunch of my pals were going cock-a-hoop over this wank? What a mushy, churchy load of old pony.

Too precious for my tastes

It's boring as fuck. How people are listening to this in their millions I'll never know.

Sounded good to start with but I lost concentration pretty quickly. The word "pretentious" keeps entering my consciousness. Then I read some quotes by Robin Pecknold, he is pretentious with a capital W. The annoying thing is that I can hear echoes of Brian Wilson, which should make me want to like it, but it just sounds try hard. I'm getting to the end and it's just sounding annoying. Bellowing out "Oliver James!" at the end of a song doesn't help. Spotify decided to play Belle and Sebastian after this album had finished. I think that comes from a playlist entitled "Overrated Twaddle." I'm going to listen to Queen now, to get my good humour back. They were over the top, but with tongue wedged firmly in cheek.

I own or downloaded a Fleet Foxes album years ago... not this one thankfully. But now I think about it there is maybe only one track I like on that one. There were zero on here - and I like a bit of folksy Americana

Drivel, hard to find any redeeming features. Soft, inoffensive folk that feels like it was written purely for BBC Radio 2. I can see why some people might like it, as it’s a very good attempt at what it’s trying to be, but I hate what it’s trying to be.

Please make it stop

this makes me feel like i’m going through the great depression and the album cover isn’t helping

So unbelievably boring. I can't differentiate any of the songs it's just all so flat

Never got into this band and this didn’t do it for me either. So boring

Boring hipster stuff.

Not my genre

Snore. Not for me.

It just kept going.....

Old folky riffs that are not for me

Boring, anthemy hipster music

Don't like Folk-Getting-Baptised-In-A-Lake-Revival Music personally

Awful

Awful background music

Forgot I was listening to it... just didn’t register with me.

Minstrel nonsense. Gtfo

1.5 stars. Very bland music

Nice album, 4/5.