| Fleet Foxes Gatecrash The UK Album Chart |
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Looks
like the summer just found its soundtrack… and its sounding foxy!
Following a sell-out UK tour and some of the most ecstatic reviews in
years Fleet Foxes have stormed into the album charts at number 11 in
their first week of release. “If you embrace the theory that the story of American pop music has been told most persuasively by 3 or 4 voices singing in glorious harmony – think of the Beach Boys, the Byrds, the Band – then Fleet Foxes already look well on their way to claiming a prime place in that exalted lineage… The beauty of this superb album simply leaves you reeling… ‘Fleet Foxes’ casts a bewitching, unfathomable musical spell that lingers long after the music stops” Observer Music Monthly – 5 Stars ***** “a landmark in American music… an instant classic” The Guardian – 5 Stars ***** “The sense of wonder in Fleet Foxes' songs is matched only by the discipline and talent that created this adventurous, evocative record. One which is already shaping up as an album of the year” MOJO – 5 Stars ***** (Album of the Month) “cosmic American music… a brilliant album” Sunday Times – 5 Stars ***** (CD of the Week) “Fleet Foxes is proof that the US alt-folk well has yet to run dry…” The Times – 5 Stars ***** “This buzzed-over Seattle quintet's ecstatic harmonies make old-as-hills hillbilly folk and pastoral story-songs sound sunshine-pop sharp” The Independent (Information) – 5 Stars ***** “Their sound is rarely short of divine” London Lite – 5 Stars **** “Fleet Foxes draw you in instantly with their celestial harmonies… It’s rare for a limitless list of influences – folk, acoustic rock, baroque pop, the devotional and the pastoral, to blend so seamlessly into one achingly beautiful whole” Sunday Express – 5 Stars ***** "Little in the way of hype can prepare you for how overwhelmingly beautiful and out on a limb this band is compared with every other group of their generation… Extraordinarily good." Classic Rock – 9/10 “Classic… Fleet Foxes are a revelation” The Observer “Fleet Foxes simply make profoundly beautiful music… Anyone who’s fallen for the air of mystery and beauty of permeating REM’s ‘Murmur’ will find that Fleet Foxes casts a similar, bewitchingly pure musical spell. Exciting band. Stunning record” WORD “Fleet Foxes are simply awesome… this is surely one of the more notable releases of 2008” Metro – 4 Stars **** (Album of the Week) “Fleet Foxes debut is a fastidious, often overwhelmingly pretty evocation of the American wilderness and an escapist fantasy to compare with the very best hymns” Uncut – 4 Stars **** “Fleet Foxes are this year’s Arcade Fire… purveyors of dreamy ‘wonder rock’ who’ve become the most worshipped band of the moment… Enchanting” Sunday Telegraph – 4 Stars **** “easily the most beguiling album of the year… beautiful songs and soaring harmonies abound” Evening Standard – 4 Stars **** “While My Morning Jacket are kindred spirits, Fleet Foxes sound so fresh there might still be bits of eggshell at their feet… A pure pleasure” Q – 4 Stars **** “Fleet Foxes debut suggests they can follow the Arcade Fires and Mercury Revs to somewhere close to the mainstream…” The Independent – 4 Stars **** “Staggeringly beautiful” The Fly – 4 Stars **** “this is one of the finds of the year… sheer, unadulterated beauty” The Sun – 4.5/5 ***** “their vocal harmony-saturated mix of neo-baroque pop, 70s country-rock and English pastoral folk (both medieval and modern) makes for makes for a soulful, swoonsome and damn-near spiritual experience” Time Out – 4 Stars **** "layered in the type of sun-soaked harmonies last heard on Beach Boys' records… Like Jeff Buckley or Arcade Fire before them, Fleet Foxes look set to make their mark on American alt-rock and beyond." Shortlist “Fleet Foxes sound is a baroque and richly textured thing – hymnal, melodic and otherworldly… this album heralds the arrival of an interesting, seductive and confidently singular sound.” Clash Magazine “British audiences are finally getting their first taste of Fleet Foxes, 3 months after tipsters raved about them at SXSW” Music Week (Album of the Week) http://www.myspace.com/fleetfoxes |
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