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Janitor
Gender: Male
Location: Spain
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- #1
- Posted: 05/22/2015 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1635): Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes
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Today's album of the day
Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 2011.
Country: 
Overall rank: 260
Average rating: 80/100 (from 640 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Montezuma
2. Bedouin Dress
3. Sim Sala Bim
4. Battery Kinzie
5. The Plains/Bitter Dancer
6. Helplessness Blues
7. The Cascades
8. Lorelai
9. Someone You'd Admire
10. The Shrine/An Argument
11. Blue Spotted Tail
12. Grown Ocean
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Ollie
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Location: Oxford 
- #2
- Posted: 05/22/2015 20:29
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Love it, definitely one of the best of the 2010s for me. Deep lush harmonies and twinkling guitars, overall a really emotional and thought provoking take on folk music. Throughout his mind meanders like a river finding its way through a forest, his lyrics definitely resonate with me.
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SleepDealer
Location: Isca Dumnoniorum
- #3
- Posted: 05/22/2015 20:32
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| Ollie wrote: | | Love it, definitely one of the best of the 2010s for me. Deep lush harmonies and twinkling guitars, overall a really emotional and thought provoking take on folk music. Throughout his mind meanders like a river finding its way through a forest, his lyrics definitely resonate with me. |
Agreed. Their debut seems to get more plaudits, but this is its equal IMO.
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HazeyTwilight
boyfriend in your wet dreams
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Location: Elmo Knows Where You Live 
- #4
- Posted: 05/22/2015 20:32
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It's a good album. I prefer it to their self-titled. Grown Ocean is magnificent.
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HoldenM
To Pedantically Split Infinitives
Gender: Male
Age: 30
- #5
- Posted: 05/22/2015 20:33
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One of most beautiful, most life-affirming albums that has ever been written and recorded. Everything about this is perfection. Whatever Fleet Foxes does next, it'll have to stand up to what is arguably the greatest baroque album of the last decade (only Sufjan Stevens' Illinois comes close).
Track picks
1. Montezuma
4. Battery Kinzie
6. Helplessness Blues
9. Someone You'd Admire
10. The Shrine/An Argument
11. Blue Spotted Tail
12. Grown Ocean
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- #6
- Posted: 05/23/2015 01:04
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It's dope, probably in my top 300 albums
That's it, folks
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poppmusic
Location: Fullerton, CA
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- Posted: 05/23/2015 02:48
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Conflicted between its lush musicality and its sterile harmonies.
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SleepDealer
Location: Isca Dumnoniorum
- #8
- Posted: 05/24/2015 18:24
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Gave it another whirl today - I agree that it is the better of their albums so far. When is the next one coming?
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- #9
- Posted: 05/24/2015 21:00
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| poppmusic wrote: | | Conflicted between its lush musicality and its sterile harmonies. |
I sort of agree with this. The Fleet Foxes write some absurdly pretty songs, but the vocals just sound like they're all bored; it's lacking passion or personality, which leaves the rest of the album sometimes feeling like 'colour-by-numbers'.
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Ollie
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Location: Oxford
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- Posted: 05/24/2015 21:19
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| Puncture Repair wrote: | | the vocals just sound like they're all bored; it's lacking passion or personality, |
I disagree, I think Pecknold pours emotion into his vocals (particularly on Someone You'd Admire and The Shrine/An Argument), and Fleet Foxes' harmonies are very distinct.
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