Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Sun It Rises
2. White Winter Hymnal
3. Ragged Wood
4. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
5. Quiet Houses
6. He Doesn't Know Why
7. Heard Them Stirring
8. Your Protector
9. Meadowlarks
10. Blue Ridge Mountains
11. Oliver James

Disc 2:

1. Sun Giant
2. Drops In The River
3. English House
4. Mykonos
5. Innocent Son
6. False Knight On The Road

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #425 in Music
• Released on: 2009-02-02
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .13 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's now twenty years since grunge emerged from then culturally isolated Seattle and Fleet Foxes, the eponymous debut album from the city's latest heroes, demonstrates just how much American independent rock has mutated in that time. The five young members of Fleet Foxes make up a very different sort of rock band, describing their own music as "baroque harmonic pop jams". Even that understates the depths of the quintet's effortless vocal harmonies and gently woozy, folky feel. Of their contemporaries only the enigmatic Midlake and My Morning Jacket at their most fragile come close, but neither could have cooked up the Beach Boys spiritual of "White Winter Hymnal" or its more powerful companion piece "Ragged Wood". In fact Fleet Foxes happily admit to aspiring to an earlier tradition--not just obvious antecedents like the Byrds, the Association, Neil Young and, especially, David Crosby's famously unfocussed solo album If Only I Could Remember My Name but ancient English folk songs and their later American descendents. All were hunted and gathered from the internet--songwriters Robin Pecknold and Skye Skjelset are barely in their twenties. Add a host of unlikely instruments and the results are stunning, the complete antithesis of mainstream stadium indie that has followed Arcade Fire. Still, the cover features a Bruegel painting of peasants that might have graced any Black Sabbath sleeve. In that way at least Fleet Foxes salute a local tradition. -—Steve Jelbert

CD Description
Undoubtedly one of the breakout indie successes of 2008, Portland folksters Fleet Foxes' debut LP gets a reissue here that includes the band's first EP in its entirety. Here chiefsongwriter Robin Pecknold crafts homespun paeans to nature and evocative mythology, with musical accompaniment that recalls acts as diverse as The Beach Boys and Fairport Convention. It's fair to say that the most central and recognisable elements of Fleet Foxes' sound is Pecknold's chiming voice and the accompanying vocal harmonies. This Special Edition isa perfect introduction for those yet to have been exposed to the band's charms. Features the single 'White Winter Hymnal'.