Music is both the most inessential and the most essential thing. “In its place came a gratitude, a joy at having the time and resources to devote to making sound, and a different perspective on how important or not this music was in the grand It just came to seem so small in comparison to what we were all experiencing together.
But since March, with a pandemic spiralling out of control, living in a failed state, watching and participating in a rash of protests and marches against systemic injustice, most of my anxiety around the album disappeared. I’ve never let myself enjoy this process as much as I could, or as much as I should. “By February 2020, I was again consumed with worry and anxiety over thisĪlbum and how I would finish it. Worried about what I should make, how it will be received, worried about the moves of other artists, my place amongst them, worried about my singing voice and mental health on long tours. Speaking of the new album, Pecknold added: “Since the unexpected success of the first Fleet Foxes album over a decade ago, I have spent more time than I’m happy to admit in a state of constant worry and anxiety. My hope is that the film, much like the album does, reflects optimism and strength.” The urban and narrative scenes interact with the more surreal landscapes, rather than sit in opposition of one another. “The film is intended to co-exist and engage with the album, rather than be in a direct and symbiotic relationship with it. “I listened to the album while driving, and observationally shot landscapes that I felt resonated with the music, yet also stood on their own,” Werdal explained. It was shot in Washington, Oregon and Idaho on 16mm film by Kersti Jan Werdal. The album comes complete with an accompanying film, also entitled Shore. This was the mindset I found, the fuel I found, for making this album.” “Tempted by the adventure of the unknown at the same time you are relishing the comfort of the stable ground beneath you. “I see “Shore” as a place of safety on the edge of something uncertain, staring at Whitman’s waves reciting ‘death’,” frontman Robin Pecknold said of the new album in a statement. The band’s fourth record features contributions from Uwade Akhere, Hamilton Leithauser, Grizzly Bear’s Chris Bear and Daniel Rossen, Kevin Morby, and others ‘Shore’ follows the band’s 2017 album ‘Crack-Up’, and was recorded in New York, Paris, Hudson, Los Angeles and Long Island City between September 2018 and September 2020. It was first teased with posters displayed around Paris at the weekend. The album news was shared today (September 22nd) to mark the beginning of the autumnal equinox. “Can I Believe You” by Fleet Foxes from the album ‘Shore’, available nowįleet Foxes have annouced the release of their surprise new album titled ‘Shore’. As Pecknold sings, “And oh man, was it that much better then? We were left alone, we were proud of our pain,” he has a moment of reflection-what seems so hard now might not feel so bad later. “A Long Way Past The Past” shines as a standout track, carrying through Pecknold’s Laurel Canyon folk-inspired harmonies and beautifully blended guitar and horns. The band has grown a lot through their career, and Shore reads like they’ve brushed off the unnecessary bits that might have held on from past albums, resulting in tracks are strong from beginning to end. Robin Pecknold’s vocals are strong and hopeful, opening up a new blue sky for the days to come.
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It’s music that’s vibrant and full of life in a climate that has been harsh and dreary and full of let-downs. With this in mind, it’s hard not to hear it as a perfect fall companion, and especially the fall 2020 companion.
It’s a gorgeous and thoughtful representation of how strange, but still magnificent, making music in 2020 can be.įleet Foxes released their fourth album, “ Shore”, on the Autumnal Equinox. On “Can I Believe You,” it’s an edited megamix chorus of 500 fans on Instagram who sent clips to Pecknold of them singing the hymnal. On an album that Pecknold produced on his own throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, he found incredible ways to involve his band and collaborators. Perhaps no song on Fleet Foxes’s excellent 4th LP, “Shore”, illustrates the album’s concept of celebrating life amid our inner demons’ best attempts to thwart it quite like “Can I Believe You.” Singer Robin Pecknold literally talks to his mind about the struggle to communicate with his own thoughts, impulses and anxieties and in vintage Fleet Foxes fashion, that conversation is washed in bucolic beauty.