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This was quite good.
This album was very consistent when came to overall tone, quality, and themes of the album. I enjoy the folk genre for it's up lifting feel and this album didn't disappoint.
Rating: 8.5/10 Great indie-folk album. Beautiful instrumentally and mostly great vocally. The band really shines when all instruments are playing, weakest songs are just vocals and guitar. Favorite songs: Sun It Rises, Winter Hymnal, Your Protector, Blue Ridge Mountains, Oliver James. Worst songs: Tiger Mountain Peasant Song, Meadowlarks.
Beautiful album - really enjoyed. 4/5
Not fully my vibe, but still good! There was a couple songs in there that I will listen to again
Easy listening, soft Distinctive acoustic guitar Catchy and melodic lyrics
Reminds me a bit of Irish hillsides for some reason
Nice album. Knew one or two before, good listen.
It's good and all... But the songs aren't really songs. They're more moods.
LOVED
Enjoyable. In my preferred style
Great vocal performances, well composed and mixed instrumentals, reminds me of Funeral by Arcade Fire in the best way. Can see how this influenced music that would follow it.
Another band I've heard of, but have never listened to. Opens on a folksy tone with Sun It Rises. Dusty, astral vocals are reminiscent of early My Morning Jacket. Same can be said for Ragged Wood. They feel like a folkier MMJ without the tendency to open into beer soaked jams. Album is very pretty in general. Vocal work is clean and the instrumentals support well without crowding. Blue Ridge Mountains was among my favorites here. I'm a light 4 on this one.
My sister introduced me to Fleet Foxes with the album so I'm excited to listen to it again. It certainly has a wanderlust vibe to it. If "Into the Wild" needed a new soundtrack, this album would be a perfect fit. Wish I had enough time to see them at Roo. I also think the rise of Fleet Foxes and the comeuppance of Hipsters is not a coincidence I really like this album, and it gets bonus points when listening to it in fall weather. The singer has a great voice and I enjoy the songs that have beat switches in their midst. The songs do sound a bit samey which is generally a knock on albums, with no exception made here. Overall this album starts out really strong in the 4 star category, but slowly declines into the 3 star territory when songs start to blend together. There's still enough great songs on here to keep it as a soft 4.
This brought some comforting loveliness. I will be listening to this band some more for sure. I hearted about four songs.
El espectacular debut de uno de los actos de folk-indie es una colección de increíbles paisajes llenos de montañas, neblinas, ríos y praderas. La hermosa orquestación acompaña a las dulces guitarras y espectaculares voces de los miembros de la banda. A la vez, un increíble antecedente para la futura carrera de Josh Tillman, quien posteriormente pasaría a ser conocido como Father John Misty. Uno de los mejores LPs de los finales de los 2000s.
It felt graceful and incredible to listen to, not pretentious and “indie-y”
De la bonne folk avec des bonnes mélo. Écouté dans parc entre 18 et 19h. P'tite sieste au milieu.
The way the singer's voice is mixed makes the whole album really dreamy and soft. Sometimes it makes it even sound like it's from a cheesy commercial with a group of friends in a big landscape. Good listen !
I got into this album and fleet foxes because I got one of those free cards at Starbucks with a song on it. The song was Mykonos - which was only on their single, unfortunately. I'm not very familiar with anything they did after this album. So I have some catching up to do with their newer stuff. This album is so good! I do think that the album falls off a bit with Meadowlarks and Oliver James, which are OK - but the rest of the album is great! Love the artwork too!
Really really nice. I love listening to these guys when I am ready to unwind. Regrettably never saw them live but I hope they are around for many more years and continue to make albums like this.
Great album. Such interesting composition, there is a wide variety of speeds on this album, though all closely clustered into typical folk genre. The chord progressions and guitar work are great here, as are the classic Fleet Foxes harmonies. By comparison with their later work, you can see how unpolished their sound is, but taken on its own this album is an absolute treat.
Such a great album, have already heard a couple of these songs before but is great to hear it in one sitting.
That was a VERY 2008 sounding album -- and I loved it. Think I had only heard one or two of the songs and although they blended together, it was all enjoyable. I'd put it on again, no question
Good vibes I did a tarot reading while I listened and this was the perfect backgroud music.
One of the best sounding albums. Period. It’s insane to me that a few mortal human beings made this.
4/5. A beautiful and haunting collection of mountain songs. It feels fresh but also like a lost collection of hymns. There are definitely some misses but overall, a great album to put on while driving through the mountains or chilling outside with a fall breeze.
p920. 2008. 4 stars. CSN/John Phillips hybrid for the new millennium, which isn't a bad thing. Missing standout tunes but still good. On the replay list.
C'était vraiment sympa et ça confirme tout le bien que je pense des années 2000. J'en profite pour pisser sur les 90 au passage.
Ces braves renard nous offriront un pelage resplandissant pendant près de 40mn, avec un poil doux et soyeux. À mettre entre toutes les mains
This album made all the Gleeks and choral-nerds jump out of their skins in joy at the end of the Aughts - the actualisation of dense vocal harmonies into something more than a pretentious art-pop dalliance. It still sounds as fresh as new fallen snow 15yrs on. That’s some pretty songwriting.
I had never heard of Fleet Foxes until I listened to this album and I am hooked. Beautiful harmonies and lyrics from a debut album.
Good
Slow grow for me but I ended up really liking this album, great background music when you need motivation to work
Loved white winter hymal. The mountain pesent sing is beautiful
Heard this one already winter hymnal gets stuck in my head often
Bon album folk/indie/simili-fantasy, pourrait brasser plus mais parfait pour relaxer ou pour des balades
Just about as perfect as folky indie can get. Great record, probably more to the side of being a 4.5 for me. Some great album cuts I never gave the proper credit to.
4 ÉTOILE TRÈS BONS
Good album though not my tastes
I've never listened to this album in full, but Winter Hymnal was everywhere for a while so I've heard that before. All-in-all, I liked this album, it just seems like stereotypical indie music, but that's because it's an album that inspired others to create music that's in a similar vein.
- Oh snap, I saw fleet Foxes in concert. It was outside in the rain and it ruled. - So wait, does this one have "Mykonos" on it? Cuz that's a whole star rating's difference. - "Blue Ridge Mountains" slaps. - The neat thing about Fleet Foxes is that if there's 10 songs that means there's really 20 songs, since every song evolves into a new song about halfway through. - For instance on Mykonos: (first half) "Oh this is nice. Kind of chilled out. Not amazing, but nice." (second half) "OH DANG, THIS SHIT JUST EXPLODED, YOOOU GO WHEREVER YOU GO TODAAAAY" - "Your Protector" slaps too. It's like a country song if country music started in Seattle. - Same for "Ragged Wood". - Fleet Foxes is acoustic Tame Impala. - No seriously, it's the same guy. Look at a picture of them and tell me it's not the same guy. And a little on the nose with the "Adjective Animal" band name formula, bro. Nice try with the fake Aussie accent too, couldn't fool me. - WARNING: If this is the deluxe double disc version with "Mykonos" it rates 4 stars, otherwise it's 3 stars. Sorry them's the rules.
good,folk
4.5/5. This will give me the cred that I need to talk to that hipster girl. Geddy Lee loves this album so you know it’s a good one.
Nice album. Pleasantly surprised by it.
was wel rustig genieten niet waar
This kind of hipster indie folk/pop is my kind of jam. Beautiful harmonies with folky arrangements. White Winter Hymnal just sounds timeless.
Know mist of the songs. Didn’t realize so many were on the same album. Still can’t super enjoy Black dog
PREFS : Sun It Rises, White Winter Hymnal, Ragged Wood, Quiet Houses, He Doesn't Know Why, Your Protector, Blue Ridge Mountains MOINS PREF : Heard Them Stirring
formative album for me. 4 stars
Not at all what I expected, but good. I was getting a lot of chill vibes and some definite Beach Boys vibes in some songs!
Un disco liso pero bueno, fleet foxes nunca decepciona. Pero como digo, es un gusto muy prticular, ya que hay dos canciones que flojean comparado con el resto y el principio luego de dos o tres canciones es complicado de acomdar y seguir. Las letras, el mundo inmersivo y el sonido indie chamber que proponen funciona y funciona bie, por suerte de ellos se ganan un 7/10.
Reverb indie folk thanks you for your service
Another college favorite. Love the harmonies. This feels like an early entry in the 2010s folk revival trend, which I still love. I will say that the songs get a bit samey near the end, and I found myself checking my watch. Which is saying something for a 39 minute album.
Modern day folk classic, such a beautiful sounding album.
Я не сразу распробовал альбом, потому что звучание очень непривычное для 2008 года. Но как-то ты чуть привыкаешь - музыка начинает работать По итогу послушал 2 раза - работа стоит внимания
Нью-фолк. Звучит интересно, романтично и утопично. Хочется уехать на природу, в горы, каньоны, бродить с собакой, а не вот это вот всё. Однообразен слегка, возможно не так глубок по смыслам, как хотелось бы. Но настроение создаёт шикарное, так что 4+/5
7/10
While I personally prefer Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes’ Self Titled is still a beautiful album overflowing with gorgeous vocal harmonies and enchanting folk instrumentation
I knew more of these songs than I realized 😅😝
Very good
Devo dire che quando l'ho sentito la prima volta non mi stava convincendo, però verso la fine mi ha preso un po' di più e sono entrato nel mood. Ho quindi deciso di ascoltarlo una seconda volta e mi ha preso benissimo, bello e particolare, anche se la riba sul folk mai mi è piaciuta. Sembra una colonna sonora per un film fantasy in cui la componente religiosa ha grande importanza.
I'd never even heard of this band before today, great album not completely to my taste though. Very chill vibes.
Felt like i was floating throughout the entire thing
love it
Tja… ik hou van de Fleet Foxes, what can I say. Komt voornamelijk door het optreden van ze dat ik heb gezien in 2016 op de dag dat Leonard Cohen overleed. Hun cover van So Long, Marianne was zo prachtig… en Tiger Mountain Peasant Song lange tijd mijn favo nummer. Inmiddels herken ik het ook wel als ‘basic indie’, maar for old times’ sake toch 4 sterretjes
3.5 / Me gusto bastante, aunque no soy fanatico del Folk. Muy melodico y moody. Relisten
Quite pleasant
Rustily beautiful. Like an abandoned castle in the sunset. A great record.
First time listening. A very beautiful sounding album, really enjoyed every song on this album. First time also listening to Fleet Foxes and I really enjoy the singers voice, all the songs were so soft as well and very enjoyable. Will listen to more of this band!
Is this the most recent album on this list? I'm surprised to see it on this list. A great indie folk album.
4+
I like it, it's going into the rotation. Pleasant and original. Caught me by surprise.
Прекрасный джаз
Nostalgia record. Still think it’s well crafted and highly enjoyable
Pretty damn good listen, very enjoyable tunes. Just overall really nice.
It's been a minute since I listened to this! What fun!
I found this album to be quite relaxing, actually. Has a very in-the-era indie sound to it and best of all... it's a quick listen. 8/10.
Well my kids love that one song, so I couldn't believe this popped up. This was pretty impressive.
After a few days in leather jacket-land rock it seems like we've moved into chequered shirt wearing tweed-ville and, sonically speaking, I back it. Some truly lovely numbers on this. The frontman's voice is smooth as sage and butter. The backing melodies are simplistic but sweet. Blue Ridge Mountains was a real highlight.
Previously gave this a 2 or 3 but it's going straight up to a 4 due to a mixture of peer pressure, it growing on me, the absolute dogtits that have been served up the on here recently and not wanting to offend our Tone. This takes me straight back to my youth, listening to Bombay with a pear cider without a care in the world, happy days. You just can't help but think all is well with the world when this is on. I'd like to hear a little more grit/edge added, maybe even a Collab with alt-j, but hey it's 2008, what can you expect? They hadn't even heard of Brexit.
Really these guys rode up with Mumford and Sons. But these guys have obviously taken more drugs. Does give a classic sound to indie folk whilst still being modern and relevant. Really some beautiful songs on here. 4/5
21st century folk. Cozy. Highlights: Ragged wood. He doesn't know why. Your protector. Blue ridge mountains.
I really enjoyed this. Very cool old 50's sound at times... Lot of fun
4.5 stars, indie folk at it's finest. Vocals can be a little too studio-y/echo-y at times but this album has a lot of energy blended with gentle melodies. Plenty of great tracks with standouts "White Winter Hymnal" as well as "Blue Ridge Mountains" and "Ragged Wood."
kinda surprised to see this here but a good album nonetheless very indie folk, has the song of theirs that I like
älskar älskar fleetan
Wow, I haven't listened to this album since it first came out. I was pretty smitten with it for about two weeks and then it got old real fast. Hearing it today, though, it was the perfect soundtrack to this dreary, wet, unusually warm winter's day. I got a little tired of it by the time we got to the penultimate number, but I wouldn't necessarily say it wore out its welcome. I love that second song to pieces.
I had heard of this band before but never invested the time to explore. I really enjoyed and though I didn't take any notes or have any great observations, I will say that this album is a great demonstration of why I do enjoy our 1001 project.
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: White winter hymnal, Ragged wood, Quiet houses, Blue ridge mountains
Very nice. Not outstanding, but consistently pleasant.
Very nice folk album.
Beautiful
bare with me on this one: i think that fleet foxes are kind of the eminem of indie music. obviously, their music, lyrics, aesthetics, and overall discography quality are wildly different. the reason i think this though is due to how it can be easy to hate on both of their best music after hearing so many of the artists they've influenced sound corny. but if you try not to think about all of their successors, you realize how interesting they really are. this is one of those albums where you can picture the music in your head and i love that. it feels timeless to the point where it sounds like it was made in the 1460's and the 1960's at the same time. there are some moments where it can get a bit sleepy and uninteresting. but when it's good, it's great.
Terrific album that I have listened to numerously. Blue Ridge Mountains is the clear standout for me as I grew up a good part of my childhood at the base of Afton Mountain in the Blue Ridge. The album is a peaceful one with noteworthy harmonies. It brings calm.
Damn, this is some depressing shit. Bon Iver's For Emma coincided with My FIL's death, it also coincided with the release of this album. Both played continuously on my ipod for about six months. This FF album was what I put on when I was tired of feeling miserable. Anyhow, it's hard to extricate that from this listen. RIP Dick.
I feel like the album cover really reflects the album. From far away, the picture is calm and serene. Up close, there are so many intricacies. This album is really beautiful but ultimately I prefer my serene music to be a little more depressing so that I can really get a good wallow.
NICE
3rd February 2023 Listened during the day on Friday, pub lunch with Johnny and Row and Tar in the evening. Ruminative indie takes me back to teenage years when white winter hymnal ruled.
If you only listen to one Fleet Foxes album, you should listen to... Helplessness Blues. Well, actually I haven't given Crack Up or Shore enough of a listen but HB is a really great record. Better and more interesting than this one, which while a great debut and announcement of the band's somewhat memeable yet distinctive sound, trails off a bit towards the end. Great songs up front, a bit forgettable at the end. This is definitely something the band fixed on the follow up. Almost not worth mentioning the incredibly obvious influence of Simon and Garfunkel, and the Beach Boys vocally and Brian Wilson musically, but I will. Particularly in Quiet Houses, the standout Ragged Wood and the instrumental Heard Them Stirring. I also get a huge Red House painters vibe from Taking Tiger Mountain Peasant Song. Very accomplished debut, but better, more expansive music as they grew into their own sound was to follow.
pretty good!! kinda a mumford and sons/avett brothers/lumineers vibe
I'd forgotten how much I enjoy this album! Listened to it while driving through some foggy forests and it was so perfect! Highlights: White Winter Hymnal Tiger Mountain Peasant Song He Doesn't Know Why
Ooowie what a goodie. Was weird juxtaposition listening to this driving in the desert though!
Wonderful folky album! Best tracks: White Winter Hymnal, Ragged Wood, Tiger Mountain Peasant Song, Your Protector, and Meadowlarks
Nice, probably 4
Nice one
Perfect harmonies, it just misses an edge somehow.
4.1 fun
Birminghams Airport, setting of the New Year.
4.5
Dicht und mächtig
Really great album. Fleet Foxes are a great band, and this is arguably their best, most impactful album. I've heard it before, but it's a fresh treat today. Very soothing music, perfect for a mountain drive. Not a whole lot that sticks out, but who really cares? It's consistent and enjoyable. I really dig this one, it's a modern classic in my eyes. Favorite tracks: Sun It Rises, White Winter Hymnal, Tiger Mountain Peasant Song. Album art: Really a spectacular one, reminds me of those old Renaissance era paintings, sometimes of Hell, with a bunch of people just doing whatever. Great style. Not sure if I'd call it iconic, but it's one I know and recognize well. 4/5
Banger
Brilliant album. For me, this was a new unique style of music. Certainly something I had not heard before. The fleet Foxes album just seemed to open up other artists and I'd actually 'forgotten' about fleet Foxes until a few months ago. To hear it again then (and yesterday here) reminded me of what a great debut album this was
It seems that folk or country/pastoral are the only genres that sound good when overblown. This is a pleasant surprise, like an accidentally stunning rural landscape. Almost a 5 if it didn't drag in the end.
On est pas bien là ?
Beautiful, could be a 5 if i was more attentive
"you should come back home now"
Don't know if it was the album art or the melodies but this made me think of folk songs performed by a traveling minstrel show. A very pleasant surprise here.
3.5/5
I can appreciate this album, with its roots in British folk, but I've never fallen in love with it. I guess that sweet Byrds style of vocal harmony just isn't my thing. Still, this is a good album, very listenable, great musicians, cool layers of psychedelic folksiness. 3.5/5, rounding up in an attempt to be fair to good musicians.
One of my favorite mixes I ever made started off with "White Winter Hymnal" from this album and went into "My Girls" by Animal Collective. It was probably around February 2009, and in retrospect it was a pretty great time for music. I don't usually go for most folky things but Fleet Foxes come across original enough that I enjoy it. Timeless in a way that really grabs you emotionally. Their arrangements and harmonies have a great balance of quiet beauty and bombastic joy. At once pleasant and haunting.
Really beautiful, melodic stuff. The lyricism is excellent and even the moments that feel like filler are still great. Just a really stunning record overall and understandably considered the peak of indie folk in the 2000s.
Worth another visit
When I listen to this album I want to be biking down a dirt road surrounded by a forest full of autumn leaves. Everything about it is dream like. Not a happy dream, or a scarry dream, but a dream full of solitude and wandering. I think Fleet Foxes have mastered the use of an ambient effect; adding a short reverb and working the sound.
So lovely. A truly unique sound. When I listen to this album I feel like I'm walking through the forest in a timeless autumn. The album cover and the lyrics on songs like Tiger Mountain Peasant Song place me in some medieval land, but then I'm jolted back to modernity with "O brother, where do you intend to go tonight? I heard you missed your connecting flight." Robin Pecknold's voice is the golden goose that keeps on giving. 4.4/5
Big improvement from yesterday. I like this one
pretty
Chill an nice
Vaguely has an early CSNY sound. Listened through twice.
I enjoyed this one though it did grow a bit boring and repetitive by the end. For the first half, however, it was beautiful, innovative, and delightful. Hard to fault it for just giving us more of the same, good thing. But I'm gonna do it anyway. It's not a five-star album but it is a strong four-stars.
Just a lovely album.
Great album
Lovely album 🦊
Lovely and elevating, almost purifying. One feels almost vegan by the end. But such earnest loveliness – not to mention understatment – is a welcome break from the bombast and posturing across so much of rock/pop music history. "White Winter Hymnal" is of generational quality, in terms of defining a moment and clarifying a sub-genre, or heralding a micro-era (these guys being head and shoulders above Avett Bros, Mumford & Sux, Old Crow and others mining the neo-traditional vein about this time). Fro the very strong start, the record just keeps getting better and better, with the last cuts – "Quiet Houses," "Your Protector," "Meadowlarks," "Blue Ridge Mountains" and "Oliver James" – achieving and maintaining a very high standard indeed.
massa o som
This was much better than I expected! Between 3 and 4 stars. I'm giving it 4 to encourage me to listen to this album again. I suspect this music would grow on me with repeat listening.
To me, not quite as good as Helplessness Blues, but a very close second. Still the foundational Fleet Foxes sound - haunting vocals on haunting instrumentals.
Already heard it
A pleasant album! Reminded me of Of Monsters and Men at times. Loved the acoustic style and echoes added. Similar to Intervention, this album sounds like it would be perfect in a cathedral, but like a half-ruined cathedral in the forest in this case.
A return to folk
So nice
Well this is all very pleasant
very pleasant background music, didnt catch any remarkable songs
Cool it with the reverb effect and I think you’d have a pretty solid album. 4/5
Really tasteful record with a variety of enjoyable tracks and interesting productions. The overall project is absolutely solid especially because of the great atmosphere of every song on the album.
Undoubtedly one of the best indie folk debut albums ever created. It was the perfect storm for a well deserved success in the late 2000s. A very pleasant revisit. First Listen?: N Fav. Tracks: White Winter Hymnal, He Doesn't Know Why, Your Protector Rating: 4.5/5
Sydämestäni on alkanut löytyä pehmeä kohta folkille ja onhan tää siinä genressä hyvä erityisesti debyytiksi. 4/5.
Amazing vocal production, the album was quite lush with melodic instrumentation and was an album that I could actively have in the background for working.
Really good, For all the bad albums on here this was great.
Me gusto. Super tranqui. Tiene algo de Pink Floyd.
Great listen
Great album, beautiful vocals. Fav track: Quiet Houses
Generally like the early age Psych-Folked Fleet Foxes.
pretty sweet folk! folk just isn’t my favorite genre, it probably could’ve been a higher rating if i liked the genre more.
This is certainly a unique set of songs with great vocal and instrumental textures. Sort of anachronistic at times, especially on Blue Ridge Mountains where the musical style seems out of the past, but the lyrical content is very much of the present day. Nice arrangements throughout. A second listen helped me to note a strong resemblance to The Beach Boys in the harmonies. The melodic lines, the way they riffed and repeated, was also reminiscent of some of Brian Wilson’s compositions, especially later ones.
A bit repetitive in sound but all was good.
Líders, juntament amb Mumford and Sons, del resorgiment del folk rock a finals dels 00s. 'White Winter Hymnal' és un dels grans temes de la década i amenaça amb enfosquir la resta, però no seria just. 'Sun It Rises', 'Ragged Wood', 'Oliver James'... el disc en general és força complet i val la pena recuperar-lo de tant en tant
Classic aughts vibe
Fun album
Brilliant debut with a great harmonious tone with the band and vocals totally in sync like they had been recording for years
Really cool folk music. Unexpectedly pretty good. May listen to it more. Feels like it would be traditional even though it was released in 2008.
Great album. Love the blend of Folk and rock, very similar to My Morning Jacket, perhaps a bit mellower. Always a fun listen.
Enjoyed this album quite a bit. Had not heard it before, this was in my "dark times" of not listening to any new music.
Heel veel gedraaid toen dit album net uit was. En ik vind het nog altijd erg goed. Prachtige zanglijnen en harmonieën. Ik snap dat dit door veel mensen al té zoet zal worden bevonden, maar voor mij is ie precies goed gevallen.
During my first listen, I really didn't get it. I found it mostly boring. Then today when I used the album as the soundtrack for my walk on an overcast afternoon on the trails of the foothills with just an occasional passer-by, I was captivated. It was just perfect for the setting. It was a long walk and I listened twice. Later, when I returned to the house and put it on once again to try to pinpoint a favorite song, it just didn't sound the same. I guess this might be a very situational attraction for me.
Great album. Great vocals. Makes me a bit sleepy in a good way
Straight banger
Beautiful harmonies. There's something about mixing renaissance choral music with a folk band. (8/10) FT: Ragged Wood
4.5
Favorite tracks: Blue Ridge Mountains Winter White Hymnal
This is another gem I doubt I would ever have heard of or found on my own...this is the kind of album you can put on in the background on a rainy day, read your book and just have this on a loop for a few hours....
I think getting a true folk feeling in modern and original songs is harder than it may seem. This does it as well as I’ve heard it done, and also moves confidently between this and a more contemporary style without losing a unique and unified sound. Overall liked it a lot.
I don't know if this is the album that popularized the mountain man indie folk thing that stuck around for a bit, but in my head it is. Anyway, this was really solid, but not quite the force that I remember it being. Best track: Oliver James
I cannot believe this album is 14 years old. It takes me back to a time and place where I think I was happier.
One of the best indie albums
so pretty and nice some good songs
Well I'm a sucker for some men beautifully harmonising together, absolutely gorgeous. And I think what an iconic album at the time - in 2008 this felt very different. Before the big folky hits that came in after this, like Ben Howard, and I think more rich than the likes of Newton Faulkner. loved it - going onto more FF albums now
Listened to on 5/15/22 4/5 Favorite songs: Tiger Mountain Peasant Song, Your Protector This band is incredibly talented - their lyrics, their vocals, and their instrumentation were beautiful and unlike anything I’d heard before yet so easy to listen to. Some of the songs were a little too repetitive for me but I absolutely loved a few and will listen to them again
Ljómandi áheyrileg og vel flutt músík, mjög einkennandi sound. Lögin svo sem misskemmtileg, en heildarsvipurinn flottur.
an early 10's staple - mellow and then overdone on the beards
Great
2008 - Indie folk, folk rock, folk-pop
Genesis could learn a thing or two about focus and songwriting from these guys. Lush and rich, beautifully produced and with some memorable songs. Very good indeed.
Perfectly pleasant
4.25
The second track on this album ("White Winter Hymnal") was my introduction to Fleet Foxes, and still one of my favorite songs from the band. I enjoyed listening to the album. I would come back for a second listen.
Do like it just not quite a 5
Czlowiek sie doczekal indyjskiego rokowania, ktore ma na siebie pomysl, bo wlasnie takim albumem jest fleet foxes bedacy eponimowym debiutem grupy z roku 2k08, az dziwne ze zespol jest z hameryki, bo stylistycznie idealnie wpasowuje sie w basnie anglinsko europejskie, o czym juz swiadczy sama okladka, ktora jest ciekawym obrazem Pietera Bruegela Elderowego zatytulowanym Nederlandse Spreekwoorden, a po polsku znany takze jako swiat do gory nogami, bo o ile na pierwszy rzut oka wyglada to na typowy przyklad sztuki wiekow srednich, to jednak diabel tkwi w szczegolach, doslownie i w przenosni, bo im dluzej sie przygladac tym bizarniejsze rzeczy mozan dostrzec i podobnie takze ma sie sprawa z tym albumem, na 40 minutach delikatych jamow snute sa opowiesci o smierciach, namietnosciach i smutniejszych uczuciach, a to wszystko przekazane w tak indyjsko folkowej formie, ze genius jest twoim przyjacielem w rozwiazywaniu zagadek liryczych wymyslonych przez pana Robina Pecknolda, ktory zarowno spiewa jak i pisze liryczna strone plyte, dodatkowo brzdakajac na gitarce, ale dziwne ze nikt nie jest creditowany na okladce jako artysta danego instrumentu, tylko jako aranzer, ale wiki podaje kto co dzialal na krazku i tak obok Robina mozna uslyszec na plycie jeszcze czterch czlonkow, sklad raczej typowy, bo glowna gitara, bas, drumsy i klawisze, no i jeszcze uzyczaja swoich glosow do budowania chorkow na sporej ilosci trakow, dawno nie slyszalem tak subtelnie wykorzystanych wokali, nie tylko tych chorkowych, ale rowniez glownych od pana Robina do budowania klimatu plyty, co najlepiej slychac na kawalkach jak meadowlarks czy tiger mountain peasant song, ktore sa najbardziej ascetycznymi trakami pod wzgledem instrumentala, wiec najbardziej rzuca sie na uszy jakie postaranko zostalo wlozone w wokal, nie mozna takze pominac najbardziej sluchanego utworu plyty, ktory natomiast flexuje harmoniczne wokale calego zespolu polaczone z tak pozytywnie brzmiacym instrumentalem, a lirycznie opowiadajac prawdopodobnie o utracie zycia lub niewinnosci, czuc mocne pumped up kicks viby, tylko w iriowym odcieniu, ciekawa to byla plyta, pozytywne zaskoczenie gatunku indyjskiego na generatorze, co do pickow na plejke, to ciezko wybrac, bo plyta jest mocno sluchalna jako calosc, wiec pojdzie na poleczke spotifajowa, ale pojde za glosem wiekszosci i dodam white winter hymnal i jako drugi kawalek your protector, jako najbardziej jamowy utwor plyty, ktory zaskakuje dodatkowym czlonkiem instruemntalnym, bo pojawia sie Gwen Owen na flecie, bo jakby moglo zabraknac fletu na tak basniowym nagraniu
This album contains some next level joy and wonder musically. He Doesn't Know Why is one of the most gorgeous songs ever committed to wax. White Winter Hymnal and Quiet Houses are both very nice too - but a lot of the album is just that... Nice. When it hits transcendence, it's brilliant, but a lot of it is just pleasant, and just drifts by, wispily. The commitment to a very consistent but different sound is great though.
Folk con toques medievales. Muy chulo.
Exceeds my expectations tenfold. It's whimsical and magical, filled with imagery of forests and mountain, tales told by medieval folk singers. Some tracks shrouded by the wide openness ("Tiger Mountain Peasant Song"), while others bombard you with a wall of sound full of optimism and happiness ("Quiet Houses"). Nothing sounds more fairy tale-like than "Heard Them Stirring." Influences are all over, I can hear post-rock / emo in "Ragged Wood" and psychedelic pop in "He Doesn't Know Why." The style of singing is certainly reminiscent of Brian Wilson, but he definitely makes a style of his own that fits extraordinarily well with the album's themes. Some standout tracks, but the album is best experienced front to back.
Charming and hypnotic. A lovely journey that softened my soul for about 35 minutes. Thank you for bringing this one to my attention
great album
Ironically I did not enjoy this as much as other Fleet Foxes albums - Helplessness Blues and Shore are both incredible IMO. This is still pretty great, and the best qualities of FF still come through, namely the pounding drums, plucking guitar, and airy, layered vocals. It seems to not quite have the (very soft) 'bite' of their other records, though. 7/10
i actually very much enjoyed this album. I loved his voice. it was very soothing and continuous and gave hope? it was just really pretty.
This is a very rich sounding album. Lush, even. I've generally not gravitated towards the modern folky-harmonic type genres but when this album came out there was something about it that grabbed me. I hadn't listened to it in probably a decade so it was interesting to revisit and definitely *sounds* gorgeous. Highly melodic and soft-ish tunes but quite complex instrumentation. It's a pleasantly short record - 39 minutes or so; any more might really start to get repetitive or suffer from a sameness for me. This works as more of an album experience as songs tend to run into one another but i'm treating this as a feature rather than a bug. Highly recommended. 8/10 4 stars.
Soulful folky indie rock. A little generic but good.
Mellow, relaxing, uplifting.
Bão.
deu vontade de rever Wolfwalkers
Excellent debut and I enjoy its calming effect
لسه مكملتش بس متأكد أنه حلو
Nice peaceful album
Great album, really enjoyed this
Nice to have a more current release chucked in the mix. Not sure how I've never heard these guys, although I am aware who they are. I'll probably give this another spin, thus is really nice and the production is really good.
Beautiful and ultra hygge. Autumn vibes, folky tunes, I love it.
Really liked the album. Seemed to have pioneered the genre. Influenced a lot of the bands that I like, like Coldplay. Great album overall. Some songs weren't as strong as others, and the album seems to be rough work for what was to come for the genre
Really good indie folk with strong country vibes. Great songwriting!
The music of Fleet Foxes has a very calming effect on me. It gives me the feeling that everything is going to be alright someday. The rhythm, the harmonies and instrumentation makes this album a go to indie-folk album for me.
Chill as hell - bit depressing at points
Its a beautiful thing. I had played it too much previously and happy to encounter it again here.
Mycket vackert album. Rakt upp
Cool!
I really enjoyed the sound. It’s amazing. Great acoustic playing, harmonies, vocals and the album as a whole is a perfect length. The one thing holding it back is that there is no song or two to push it up a star as the album remains the same throughout.
Nice, atmospheric folk album. Runtime was just right, not too long. Maybe lacked one or two standout songs but still a good album
The perfect album for this time of year. Wistful, elegaic and full of beautiful melody and harmonies.
A lot of it sounded the same but at least those similar sounds were nice to listen to. Musically it was very easy on the ears and enjoyable.
There are some great harmonies in this album, reminiscent of Crosby, Stills & Nash. Simple in its musicality, this album is a great listen for relaxing or background music. I think I found a new album to add to my library I also had no idea White Winter Hymnal was their song originally! The Pentatonix cover is great but the concept originated with Fleet Foxes.
Sounds like my senior year in college
Good lil boring like background movie music but I would listen again
White winter hymnal the highest of highlights
Secondo me piacerebbero ad Ale. :) Folk-rock allegro, ma con passione. Trascinante e ben eseguito.
I actually like this album surprisingly - also perfectly wintry
A bonus point for White Winter Hymnal
Lovely - lush, warm Beach Boys style harmonies, charming folk. I'd heard good things, but never got around to listening. Quite wonderful!
Not normally my kind of music, but I still really enjoyed listening to this.
Solid album all through. Not a bad song.
Lovely bit of folk
Missed this album back in the day, but I quite enjoyed listening to it today. Has a lot of similarities to things I already like and I imagine I’ll be revisiting this a bit.
Rich harmonies and delicate, spacious arrangements - like a folkier, more psychedelic Beach Boys. White Winter Hymnal is particularly good.
This was very good, I liked it. I knew a few of the songs off here. I would listen to this again.
Perfectly pleasant indie folk. A nice listen. Fave track - "White Winter Hymnal" was a fave going in. "Your Protector" caught my ear on this listen through, too...
Another band I discounted because of hipster love, and even though it is exactly the indiefolk stuff I expected, it I was glad to listen. Reminded me a lot of Local Natives! 3.5 that I'll round up on.
Enjoyable. They passed me by at the time so i will take more time to listen to more of their work.
Nice,I recognise the lead single and lots of the influences. Might come back and listen again in the future.
I like this album. I've never heard of the group or any of the songs.
Musically excellent but some dubious lyrics
Like it! Quite folky. "Meadowlarks" was one of my favs
Beautiful sunset album. Excellent harmonies
I think this would be fantastic late-night writing music with a glass of scotch and the lights down low.
This reminded me that I need to listen to more Sufjan Stevens
Ruddy bloody fantasmal
A really beautiful album. A surprise for me, for sure.
My gateway to Father John Misty.
8/10. Well, I can certainly see how this one was influential. Overall I liked it, it had a nice, peaceful but sorrowful sound to it, and while the album would have been more interesting if it varied from that a bit more, it would have ruined the mood.
Really good modern folk music. There wasn't anything flashy enough for me to be wowed or return to this album often but it's just very solid. 8
me hace sentir como un hada cuando lo escucho
Excellent indie album. Fleet foxes has such a unique sound that is melodic and fluid throughout the whole album. 8.6/10
Interesting and unusual sound Relaxing 4/5
Great for this style of music. 4 stars just cause it's not quite my thing.
I’ve heard various cuts off this album but never listened to it the whole way through before. I enjoyed it. 3.5 overall.
As pretty as a dandelion blown by the wind on a sunny spring morning
Liked 👍
Very chill - love it!
Abgefahren aber sehr schön!
Sound
I’ve listened to this album many times and it never fails calm, sooth and relax. A great listen, especially during the cold winter months.
A beautiful album. Love the soundscapes and trilling instrumentation. Sounds like something out of a fantasy land Saved: White Winter Hymnal, He Doesn't Know Why, Your Protector
Conhecia White Winter Hymnal jah (122 milhoes de listens wtf) e Blue Ridge Mountains que sao ambas excelentes. Chillax music.
Heel leuk album. Net geen 5*, maar mogelijk verandert dat als het een paar keer beluisterd is. Het feit dat het één van mijn favoriete schilderijen op de cover heeft, is een pluspunt.
Great album, not exciting but the band aren't exciting.
Rauhallisen menevää ja harmonista. Kuunteli mielellään toiseencotteeseen ja osittain vielä kolmanteenkin. Äänimaailmaltaan hyvin tehty ja tuotettu levy. 3+ mutta anteliaasti ylöspäin neloseen, koska sopi loistavasti syksyiseen tiistaiaamuun.
Only knew one song prior to listening - great album. Uplifting.
folksy chill road trip music. Beach House without the ennui depression vibes
Really enjoyed this. S&G style harmonies, great vocals.
Right on the edge of a 5 for me. “Your Protector” is my favorite.
Only got halfway thru
was a fan when it came out and it has a timeless feel so has aged well. Can be samey, but that's fine. 8/10
Its an album I'm familiar with as I listened to it a lot when it came out. Thought it was brilliant then. Listening to it again, its ok a few good songs. Not as special as I thought! 7/10
totalmente hipnotizante
I’m not sure what it is, but you can tell these guys are American right from the start. The album has an Appalachian feel to it. Good song writing, nice vocals and harmonies and they have an interesting habit of changing direction mid-song, which is brave, since I’m sure the suits at the record companies don’t like surprises. It would have been nice if “Mykonos” made it onto this album, but I think that was released earlier in the same year.
The sounds of running through a field, sometimes in the rain, sometimes in the sun, and sometimes in the snow. Great sound, definitely a mood album. Because it is a little situational, I don't think I can give it a 5, but a fantastic album nevertheless.
Folk con toques medievales. Muy chulo.
Vibey sad boi music
Very chill indie folk band. Had not listened to them before. Enjoyed.
When you first see that painting it's very bucolic, but when you look closer there's all this really strange stuff going on, like dudes defecating coins into the river and people on fire, people carving a live sheep, this weird dude who looks like a tree root sitting around with a dog. There's all this really weird stuff going on. I liked that the first impression is that it's just pretty, but then you realize that the scene is this weird chaos. I like that you can't really take it for what it is, that your first impression of it is wrong.[7] Pecknold explained to Mojo how the painting ended up on the front cover: We were trying to figure out what we wanted to do, and my brother had been working out some stuff, when I saw that Bruegel painting in a book my girlfriend had. I liked that it had a really intriguing meaning, like there's a story to each little scene. Which I just felt fitting for that record- dense but unified, not a collage or anything. And I liked its Where's Waldo? quality, that it was something you could look at for a long time on a vinyl sleeve and find new little things. It was very easy to get the museum in Berlin that has it to say yes. They were super excited a band wanted to use it and put it in their newsletter. When you open it up on the inside there's a paisley pattern traced from the back of a book that Skye (Skjelset, lead guitar)'s mum got me. We wanted two very different feelings.[8] The cover claimed the Best Art Vinyl Award 2008, an annual award, organized by Artvinyl.com, a company that manufactures display frames for record albums.[9]
Lovely album, real nice and relaxing.
Superb
Love the musical composition and variety. the band sounds raw in a way that sound like a jam band on stage; but the recording is really clean. folky but not sappy or in-authentic. Reminds me of the early work of the band 'The Shins'. love the haunting vocals of Meadowlarks. I listed 3 times. while working, while doing chores and while going for a run. My appreciation grew.
I'm not a big folksy music fan but I did enjoy this (at least the few songs I listened to). This was a nice change and calming.
Quirky lyrics, nice acoustic vibes.
Good Already recognise few of the songs from playlists on Spotify
Sort gad a churchy beach Boys them.
Fun, catchy inde album
That was a great album. I loved the moving guitar parts. I can imagine listening to this on a car ride before a weekend long camping trip.
Love, will listen again
a classic
Very enjoyable album taking direct influence from The Beach Boys with the multiple harmonies and even a little Appalachian swagger.
white winter.
An album I've listened to before! Hard to listen to it for its quality when ive heard it so many times, but I still love it.
Good enough but not super memorable.
Very nice. I really enjoyed Oliver James and Tiger Mountain Peasant song.
First half really good on first listen .
Whether or not the belief that Fleet Foxes had spawned a monster that wound up defining a regrettable aspect of 2010s indie culture is true, the fact of the matter is that the heartfelt, genuine and overall alluring nature of this album is what prevents it from achieving ridicule and scorn nearly twenty years on. Fleet Foxes, album and band, crafted a landscape that leaves the curious and hardened into awed spectators. No wonder it still maintains a gravitational pull. Favorites: Sun It Rises, White Winter Hymnal, Tiger Mountain Peasant Song, Quiet Houses, He Doesn't Know Why, Your Protector, Oliver James.
oui bon c'est mimi
I like Fleet Foxes and already knew a few songs from this album, but the whole thing didn’t feel like extra special or remarkable to me. Just something you’d have in the background while doing something else.
I actually really liked several songs and even recognized a couple. Would definitely listen again
Enjoyable album. I really enjoyed the lush sound.
won't pretend there aren't some bangers in here, but i won't pretend folk as a genre is justified either