Fleet Foxes

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Fleet Foxes
Live at SXSW, 2008
Live at SXSW, 2008
Background information
Origin Seattle, Washington, Flag of the United States United States
Genre(s) Indie rock
Folk-pop
Label(s) Sub Pop
Bella Union
Website MySpace Page
Members
Robin Pecknold
Skye Skjelset
J Tillman
Casey Wescott
Christian Wargo

Fleet Foxes is a five-piece Seattle based band signed to the labels Sub Pop and Bella Union. The quintet describe their music as "baroque harmonic pop jams." They have played at major venues such as the Bumbershoot Music Festival in Seattle, Washington, South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas and Sasquatch! Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre in May 2008. Their debut full length album Fleet Foxes was released on June 3, 2008. It was given 4 stars by Rolling Stone, and compared to the likes of the Beach Boys, Animal Collective, and Crosby, Stills & Nash.[1] On June 6, 2008, they received a 9.0 out of 10 in a review by Pitchfork for their self titled LP. [2] Fleet Foxes began their spring tour with fellow Northwest band Blitzen Trapper on February 28, 2008.[3]

Contents

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

[edit] EPs

[edit] References

  1. ^ MySpace. Retrieved on 2008-03-02.
  2. ^ Deusner, Stephen M.. Fleet Foxes LP Review. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved on 2008-06-06.
  3. ^ Seling, Megan. Billboard.com on Fleet Foxes. Billboard.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-02.

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