Anhören: Fleet Foxes – „Helplessness Blues“

Sänger Robin Pecknold über das neue Album: „I think this music draws influence and inspiration from popular music and folk rock of the mid ‘60s to the early ‘70s, folks like Peter Paul & Mary, John Jacob Niles, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Neil Young, CSN, Judee Sill, Ennio Morricone, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Zombies, SMiLE-era Brian Wilson, Roy Harper, Van Morrison, John Fahey, Robbie Basho, The Trees Community, Duncan Browne, the Electric Prunes, Trees, Pete Seeger, and Sagittarius, among many others. I’d say it’s a synthesis of folk rock, traditional folk, & psychedelic pop, with an emphasis on group vocal harmonies.Astral Weeks was a big inspiration on this album, if not always in sound then in approach. The raw emotion in Van Morrison’s vocals and the trance-like nature of the arrangements were very inspiring for this album!“

Wenn ich ehrlich bin: die ersten zwei Durchläufe sind ohne nennenswerte Aha-Erlebnisse an mir vorbeigerauscht. Aber das muss ja nichts heißen. Man sollte Alben, an denen man interessiert ist, in jedem Fall genug Zeit zugestehen. Unten das komplette Album zum Anhören. Alternativ auch bei Simfy.

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