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Fleet Foxes new album Helplessness Blues appears to be "available"
Posted by Ola Claesson on 1 April 2011 - 9:42am.
Or so a friend tells me. I wouldn´t know. This must be frustrating for the band and the record company. It´s more than a month left til the official release.
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what really is available
is the new Feelies album - legally on emusic. And rather good it is too.
I must admit I´ve never heard Feelies
Maybe I should. Never even heard about them, that I know of. Must admit I´ve also never heard of emusic. Maybe this is also something I should deal with.
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Thanks
I'll be able to hear it before the hype gets underway.
Don´t let the hype turn you off
They really are that good, even if this album will inevetably suffer from not-as-good-as-the-first-one syndrome.
I liked the first one
But the hype on this new one is going to be monstrous. I am looking at you Mojo, Uncut, several people who have already posted in this thread etc.
Anyway, I've heard it now.
It's On Spotify
It sounds like a lost classic in the Simon and Garfunkel,Beach Boys, Crosby Stills Nash vein http://open.spotify.com/album/20RJRsAPD9Yx3Nols5cAGR
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After having second thoughts. Sorry.
It's not yet available on Spotify Free
But it is otherwise "out there" on ptp sites and I am happy to report that it is a work of great beauty and majesty - I can't stop playing it - I can't remember playing a new album so much on repeat since their debut - and I will even buy a hard copy when it comes out in the internet shops in a few weeks.
I still can't get into the first one
I love "White Winter Hymnal", but the rest of the first album just plods along without really leaving much of an impression/anything else memorable. I feel like it's something I should-like-but-don't, which is a rare thing for me.
Is the new one any more varied? I only have the Free Spotify.
It´s perhaps a bit more focused
And a bit less atmospheric. But we´re not exactly talking Bowie jump.