Review: Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes/Sun Giant EP Special Edition

During the final days of winter last year I sat in a Newtown coffee shop with a good friend of mine and decried the talented musicianship that makes up the music of Fleet Foxes. I had foolishly written them off as being some sort of Grizzly Bear covers band - I just didn't get it and I wasn't going to get it until spring melted into summer and I made the move up to Auckland for a few months and I had the time to absorb it as I wiled away arcadian days.

Of course, I came around and stopped being such a difficult audiophile. The Fleet Foxes simply released one of the best albums of 2008: a heart-warming splendour of sound that unabashedly lifted spirits and moods with great folk harking back to the revery in the depths of the glory days Americana music. The self-titled album won almost universal praise across all spectrum of reviewers.The 'Sun Giant EP', intended to boost up merchandise sales whilst the band toured, also faired well with much critical acclaim. The album sold hundreds of thousands of copies in both the United Kingdom and the United States and no doubt hundreds of thousands more within the space between all corners of the globe.  Continue reading this review here.

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