Tag: "Fleet Foxes"

Father John Misty @ The Corner
0 Comments. 1,213 Views. Posted 31 Jul 2012 @ 2:16pm.
“You’re a fucking idiot,” my boyfriend told me. In the weeks preceding the Father John Misty gig, he had twigged to my secret crush on Josh Tillman, largely because I kept posting about it on Facebook. Here’s a video of Father John Misty on Letterman, sa-woon. Here’s J Tillman in a fake five-and-a-half-minute-long commercial for Japanese whisky. Here are some of the many hilarious things J... Read More
Father John Misty
1 Comments. 891 Views. Posted 4 Jul 2012 @ 8:01am.
Father John Misty is the stage name of J Tillman, who resigned his post as Fleet Foxes band member last January. He was the drummer, and a hired gun at that, so his departure caused barely a ripple in the duck pond of global music appreciation. But anyone who has seen Fleet Foxes live would know that J Tillman was destined for bigger things. Even from behind the kit, he vied for the role of... Read More
Father John Misty : Fear Fun
0 Comments. 1,269 Views. Posted 16 May 2012 @ 9:49am.
As the dust settled on another hallowed Fleet Foxes album, the various members scatter and make hay with their side-projects. On the downside, Poor Moon (featuring two Fleet Foxes members) have released a five-track EP of dull AM radio rock that hardly leaves you anticipating any further releases. On the positive side, the new album from ex-drummer Josh Tillman is a wonderful release. Like Poor... Read More
Husky Announce Record Deal & Tour
1 Comments. 1,212 Views. Posted 17 Feb 2012 @ 3:07pm.
Excellent news for local fellas Husky: Liberation Music have announced that the band have signed a worldwide record deal with famed American label Sub Pop as well as the announcement of an Australian headline tour. Furthermore, the crew will also head overseas for a run of international gigs. Husky will be the first ever Australian band to be signed to Sub Pop, joining talented and highly-... Read More
First Aid Kit : The Lion's Roar
0 Comments. 1,263 Views. Posted 26 Jan 2012 @ 5:56am.
  First Aid Kit often get compared to Fleet Foxes, perhaps due to them getting their big break via their YouTube cover of Tiger Mountain Peasant Song. Aside from I Found A Way having the same romantic urgency and wavering flutes of Your Protector, Johanna and Klara Soderber’s assured second album cementstheir sound as something quite different - younger, subtler and leaning a lotcloser to... Read More
Falls Music And Arts Festival, December 28-31, Lorne
0 Comments. 1,370 Views. Posted 17 Jan 2012 @ 3:27pm.
I awoke on the first day of 2010 after five straight nights of partying (volunteer staff had to be there an extra night) and said to myself “never again”. It’s not that Falls isn’t a great festival – in fact, it’s probably the best of its kind – it’s just when such hedonism starts to involve such physical endurance, existential crises are triggered. After a year off from Falls, a stellar lineup... Read More
Fleet Foxes, Friday 6 January, Palais Theatre
0 Comments. 848 Views. Posted 17 Jan 2012 @ 12:05pm.
Paddy Mann (aka Grand Salvo) is a stirring Melbourne singer-songwriter who compels you to fight back tears via the delicate beauty and pure emotion of his thoughtful songs. Needles and Flowers from his fifth album, Soil Creatures, seeped into the attentive crowd who sat mesmerised by the evocative narratives, wrenching melancholy and beautifully-articulated reflections. In an affecting... Read More
Fleet Foxes
0 Comments. 1,744 Views. Posted 4 Jan 2012 @ 9:45am.
Reducing the disparity between ‘who you are’ and ‘who you want to be’ remains one of life’s greatest challenges. The title of Fleet Foxes’ sophomore album, Helplessness Blues – the follow-up to the Seattle-bred harmonic-folk group’s influential self-titled debut album – alludes to this struggle and the realisation that, sometimes, the individual is the only thing standing in the way. “The songs... Read More
Husky
0 Comments. 1,940 Views. Posted 17 Nov 2011 @ 8:43am.
You could forgive Husky Gawenda and Gideon Preiss for being nervous. Their self-produced debut full-length, Forever So , is just days away from release. Yet in the late afternoon sunshine at Southbank, vocalist/guitarist Gawenda and keyboardist Preiss sound remarkably self-assured and mature, all things considered. Over a few ginger beers and chips, half of Husky don't look like a young... Read More
Boy & Bear
0 Comments. 1,727 Views. Posted 11 Nov 2011 @ 8:37am.
By any reasonable measure, Boy & Bear have had a meteoric rise. The charismatic five-piece formed in 2009, and in just over two years they have become one the country's best-loved indie folk acts, with a staggering list of professional achievements to their name. Boy & Bear won Triple J's Unearthed competition just months after forming, and signed a major label deal shortly afterwards.... Read More
First Aid Kit : The Lion's Roar
0 Comments. 2,246 Views. Posted 2 Nov 2011 @ 11:02am.
The Swedish sisters who made their name by posting a Fleet Foxes cover on YouTube are set to release a sophomore album. The title track of this forthcoming LP is another grand exercise in mythic country folk, twanging and beautiful. Like those most influential boys from Seattle, First Aid Kit write personal lyrics laced with nostalgic, pastoral symbolism, evoking long-lost worlds were salt-of-... Read More
The War On Drugs: Slave Ambient
1 Comments. 1,530 Views. Posted 16 Sep 2011 @ 10:38am.
I had a soft spot for the first album by The War On Drugs, and I’m pleasantly surprised to find their follow-up Slave Ambient so appealing. Slave Ambient is sublime alt-pop with droney inclinations, never far from the warmth of early-era My Morning Jacket or Midlake. There's also the aura of Kurt Vile permeating here, like a vein running throughout, which brings these songs that much closer to... Read More
Boy & Bear : Milk & Sticks
0 Comments. 3,553 Views. Posted 20 Jul 2011 @ 3:44pm.
A second single from the soon-to-be-released Boy & Bear album Moonfire (out August 5). Milk & Sticks begins with their trademark galloping rhythm and whomping all male harmonies but switches pace and spreads its wings halfway through, becoming a thundering stadium rock track with Muse-like ambitions. A really different sort of sound for the band, far from their would-be Fleet Foxes... Read More
Jinja Safari : Mermaids
0 Comments. 2,233 Views. Posted 20 Jul 2011 @ 3:04pm.
Mermaids is a preview of the forthcoming Jinja Safari debut Mermaids & Other Sirens. With the joyful tropicalia of Vampire Weekend and the soaring harmonies of Fleet Foxes, this is a happy tune for happy children, a soundtrack for your rollicking adventure on the high seas. The trilling flute and thundering floor toms are bursting with infectious energy, lighting a bonfire in your heart and... Read More
Fleet Foxes : Helplessness Blues
0 Comments. 3,016 Views. Posted 20 May 2011 @ 10:58am.
A clue to the central difference between the first album from Seattle's Fleet Foxes and its follow-up album can be seen in their cover art: the first, an ornate Bruegel painting; the second, a more earthy, sketchy piece by a local artist. This much-anticipated Helplessness Blues surges ahead with the rustic folk sound that the band nailed on their initial recordings, but it has a more personal... Read More
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