Thursday Throwdown: Fleet Foxes’ Helplessness Blues
The Fleet Foxes’ long awaited second full length album, Helplessness Blues, came out last week. Critics seem to have a lot to say about both this band and this record, so let’s jump right in.
NME’s Gavin Haynes comes right out and says it: “Fleet Foxes suck. They’re the soy-latte house band of Starbucks.” He goes on to comment about Helplessness Blues, “They lull you in with their flawlessly polished music and hey-nonny-nonny you into a hypnagogic state, with the aim of making the world safe for the bland, the dull and the wi-fi enabled.” He goes on to say, “It’s Pecknold’s milksop voice that dominates, to the point that the unwilling will feel like they’re listening to Crosby, Stills, Nash & A Lonely Duck.”
Filter Magazine’s Kevin Friedman also recognizes the band’s Starbucks appeal, but casts it in a more positive light, saying they are “one of the few bands that parents, high-school teachers and most Starbucks customers could appreciate along with the hip kids.” Of the album itself he says, “Helplessness Blues is a stunning work revealing a band that has staked out a larger claim on their own style of symphonic folk, but still maintains a debt to masters like Paul Simon and Brian Wilson… It is not a common occurrence to hear an album this beautiful, well composed and consistent in a pop format.”
-Erin O.
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