Fleet Foxes
by Fleet Foxes

Album
Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes
Year: 2008
Release date: 2008-06-03
Overall rank: 126th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
83/100 (from 1,625 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Best album of 2008 (1st)
Award Top 20 albums of of the 2000s (16th)
Award Top 200 albums of all time (126th)

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Fleet Foxes bestography

Fleet Foxes is ranked as the best album by Fleet Foxes.

Fleet Foxes album bestography « Higher ranked
- This album (126th)
Fleet Foxes Lower ranked (175th) »
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Fleet Foxes track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
Sun It Rises
Average Rating: 84 (322 votes)Comments: View 3
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White Winter Hymnal
Average Rating: 91 (459 votes)Comments: View 7
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Track pick (880 - 377 votes)
Ragged Wood
Average Rating: 88 (377 votes)Comments: View 3
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Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
Average Rating: 85 (320 votes)Comments: View 0
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Quiet Houses
Average Rating: 82 (285 votes)Comments: View 2
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He Doesn't Know Why
Average Rating: 87 (321 votes)Comments: View 2
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Heard Them Stirring
Average Rating: 79 (275 votes)Comments: View 2
8.
Your Protector
Average Rating: 86 (320 votes)Comments: View 4
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Meadowlarks
Average Rating: 80 (282 votes)Comments: View 1
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Blue Ridge Mountains
Average Rating: 87 (330 votes)Comments: View 3
11.
Oliver James
Average Rating: 81 (288 votes)Comments: View 2

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Fleet Foxes rankings

Fleet Foxes rankings summary
Overall rank: 126th | 2000s rank: 16th | 2008 rank: 1st  Overall chart history
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Fleet Foxes ratings

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83/100 (from 1,625 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 82.5/100, a mean average of 81.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.


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Fleet Foxes forum mentions

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95/100
From 09/06/2014 20:55 | #121394 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
positively stunning. fleet foxes sound like a heavenly folky woodland group on their amazing debut lp. their beautiful harmonies and great instrumentation make it one of the most stellar albums of its kind
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From 08/04/2014 22:09 | #118721 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I fantasize about listening to this album. I love Robin Pecknold's voice, and the reverb gives it something more that distinguishes it from everything it's influenced by.
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90/100
From 09/03/2018 01:23 | #220453 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This is folk done well. Folk needs to be poetic, harmonious,and above all have a musicianship that can transcend the lyric when there is nothing more that can be said by the poet. Fleet Foxes achieve this and then some. The composition of their work is evolving with their newer releases but this album was just such an incredibly complete set of catchy tunes and enigmatic lyrics and really came along just when I needed something to stretch beyond my discovery of the more mellow Iron and Wine style of folk.
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100/100
From 01/11/2018 15:37 | #205266 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
It's easy to simply compare this to Crosby Stills Nash and Young. And the comparison is not unfair; it's lush acoustic folk with beautiful multi-part harmonies and the CSNY influence is obvious. But that does not diminish the fact that this is an amazing and accomplished album. Many bands work a full career and never release an album this good. These guys did it right out of the gate, at a very young age to boot. It's an amazing achievement.

Favorite tracks: Blue Ridge Mountains, Tiger Peasant Song, White Winter Hymnal
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90/100
From 06/25/2016 22:01 | #169827 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Thank you, BEA, for introducing this album to me. I'd heard of the band but never bothered to listen to them until I saw this highly ranked on this website.

And I'm blown away. Fantastic record. My favorite tracks right now are Blue Ridge Mountains, Tiger Mountain Peasant Song, and Ragged Wood. I gave it an 85/100 but I can see that increasing as I sit down with this record.
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