“What was the last Fleet Foxes album that you’ve heard?”
I asked Sean earlier this year.
“Probably the self-titled one, from ’08,” he said.
Like him, I had drifted away. Their debut was in heavy rotation on my Winamp back in 2008, but somewhere after 2011’s Helplessness Blues, my attention wandered.
Fast-forward to this year: I find out that Tim Bernardes, of Recomeçar fame, is opening a few shows for Fleet Foxes on tour.
“Oh, Fleet Foxes? Are they still a thing?”
They are. Very much so.
Their 2017 return, Crack-Up, is dense and beautiful, but today is about Shore — an album that feels like stepping out and seeing the ocean for the first time. Sunlight. Breeze. Salt on your face.
The kind of record that, if you’re in Montréal these days, you absolutely need.
Listen to Fleet Foxes.
Get your vitamin D.
