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So, There’s Some New Fleet Foxes Song?

January 31st, 2011

Sub Pop‘s most coveted signing of the past 10 years dropped a bomb today on all their fans. A pretty, guitar-driven folk-rock bomb that explodes into confetti and smiles. A new song, a new album release date, and tour information were the real goods from Fleet Foxes, however. Pretty much every blog/news outlet has this covered, but I’M posting this .mp3 for anyone who has trouble with Soundcloud. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
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“Helplessness Blues” is the title track to the much anticipated second record from Seattle’s favorite sons of 2008. It comes out May 3rd on the aforementioned bit-champing label. It seems like forever since I wrote about these guys, but that’s because they took some well-intentioned time to work on their follow-up to the EP/LP that can only be categorized as a “left-field musical blitzkrieg”. Or something. Not many bands take three years to continue their sweet ride, you have to admit, but Fleet Foxes (and more accurately frontman Robin Pecknold) are not your standard outfit. Pensive, resistant and swimming against the tide seem to be cogs of their thoughtful work machine.

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The song is good and I have little doubt that the band will trump the sophomore slump, but out of all this menagerie of news, the most interesting piece I heard? Past Lives guitarist Morgan Henderson is apparently the newest member of the band. Veddy, veddy eenteresting, endeed.

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Here are the first three tour dates:

04-30 Vancouver, British Columbia – The Vogue Theatre
05-01 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
05-03 Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre

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Fleet Foxes – “Helplessness Blues”