Featured song: "The Plains/Bitter Dancer" Fleet Foxes
Holy magical faraway land journey, music masterpiece! Fleet Foxes new album, "Helplessness Blues," dropped today, and while it's not as horse-trotting upbeat as their debut, it is some fantastic shimmering, Lord of the Rings, magic forest shit! These songs are well-crafted imagination babies of harmony. Their sound is even more other-worldly ambiguous-time period, cross-culture than before. These songs put most current pop music to shame - this is melody, this is talent, this is instrumentation, this is hard work, this is heartfelt, this is cohesive, this is a brain explosion. This is the point of "Music Blog: Name TBD."
Go buy the album.
When to play it: When you have a substantial period of quiet time to listen in great headphones without interruption.
How you'll move: You'll lie like a peaceful corpse for most of it.
Side note: Wikipedia says, "The incredible care Pecknold [the lead singer] put into the album was painstaking, creating turmoil in his personal relationships. In an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Pecknold admitted that his girlfriend of five years found the stress this album placed on their relationship too much, and ended things. Upon hearing the completed album, she realized that Pecknold's efforts were worth it and they are working it out." This album even turns a woman scorned! Incredible!
Notable mentions:
--Check out the insane brass seizure about 7 minutes in to "The Shrine / An Argument" (also give a listen to what sounds like a musical saw)
--"Blue Spotted Tail" brought a genuine tear to my eye
--"Bedouin Dress" is a Harry Potter celebratory wedding dance
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