Fleet Foxes-Mykonos

[Crushcrushchris]

www.myspace.com/fleetfoxes

Goes for adds April 7th.

This band has been critically acclaimed for their self-titled album. Find a critic's list from last year and they're almost sure to be towards the top of it.

[pen]

I oughtta check this band out, they've been getting a lot of mileage.

[Deleted]

Beautiful song.

[WotUNeed]

Very nice song. I saw the video played while I was home first week of March.

Free legal download, for those who'd like.

[Mega248]

Isn't this one just on the EP? About time they tried to send something to U.S. radio though. Hopefully it does well, but they don't really strike me as a radio band at all.

[American Idiot]

This really sounds like one of the slower songs that you'd hear on a classic rock station. I like it since I has a nice relaxing sound, but I can't see this doing well on where it's being sent at all.

[Minimalism]

^^ Yeah, this one's from the EP. I have no idea why they're trying this out, but terrific song nonetheless.

[crash46]

I listened to this song and this is the first one of those 'critics'' bands where I felt as though I knew exactly how they'd sound before hearing them and I was wrong. I feel so imperfect now. :(.

[pen]

Listening to the songs on their MySpace, I can see both exactly why critics like them so much and why they will probably not do anything on the charts. Or maybe they will, stranger things have happened. It's...interesting music, but not something I could listen to all the time.

[busyboy]

The album and the EP (plus a new track) were repackaged together as the deluxe edition of Fleet Foxes a couple of months back. So, I guess sending this for adds sort of makes sense.

Anyway, this was one of my summer albums last year. I really liked it and played it a lot, but it hasn't really left a huge impression on me.

[PHOBES]

Mar 31, 2009 1:51:47 GMT -5 crash46 said:

I listened to this song and this is the first one of those 'critics'' bands where I felt as though I knew exactly how they'd sound before hearing them and I was wrong. I feel so imperfect now. :(.

Why are most "critics" bands even "critics" bands? I mean, this isn't terrible, but it's nothing special either. A lot of the recent discussions have been about these "great" songs that have people coming out of the woodwork proclaiming how fantastic the song is. I get that people have different tastes, but it's weird that I don't really like any of them, especially considering that I listen to basically every genre of music.

This song sounds like he's singing it halfway down a tunnel, "Wrong" is annoyingly repetitive, and I've found nearly every YYY and Silversun Pickups song to be impossibly annoying, "Zero" and "Panic Switch" especially.

I don't know, I guess I'm just not a deep enough thinker to see the beauty in songs where I can barely understand what the singer is saying. In advance, I'll apologize to anyone I offended with this.

[pen]

I like Wrong. It's infectious.

I don't think there's any need to be self-depreciating about it, even in jest. It's not about being smart enough to tell the difference, beauty just means different things to everyone, sometimes even at different times. Ten years ago I wouldn't have appreciated many of the bands that I do now, but my tastes have also developed.

Even still, I don't find Fleet Foxes to be all that amazing.

But I think the reason why they're critics' bands is that critics tend to hate most mainstream type of music, so the less mainstream something is, the more likely they're going to give it praise. Maybe that's oversimplifying it, but it's overall the common trend. I call it the Pitchfork Effect. Strangely this does not apply to rap, because most critics don't know anything about rap, or care.

[Matt4319]

It didn't bore me as much as I thought. (I was expecting more Death Cab than My Morning Jacket.)

[crash46]

Mar 31, 2009 14:59:19 GMT -5 pen said:

Strangely this does not apply to rap, because most critics don't know anything about rap, or care.

It's been a long time since I've actually read material from any music critic, whether independent or for a publication, but from what I remember, generally anyone in the rap genre gets a free pass if they a) play their own instruments, and/or b) have a subject matter that strays at least ever so slightly from the traditional mainstream street material. It didn't seem to matter what it actually sounded like as long as one of the two criteria were met.

[Nicholas2.0]

Apr 9, 2009 21:51:53 GMT -5 crash46 said:

Mar 31, 2009 14:59:19 GMT -5 pen said:

Strangely this does not apply to rap, because most critics don't know anything about rap, or care.

It's been a long time since I've actually read material from any music critic, whether independent or for a publication, but from what I remember, generally anyone in the rap genre gets a free pass if they a) play their own instruments, and/or b) have a subject matter that strays at least ever so slightly from the traditional mainstream street material. It didn't seem to matter what it actually sounded like as long as one of the two criteria were met.

More often, I've seen mainstream rap get held to a lower standard than active rock bands and end up with higher rankings.

[halo19]

Mar 31, 2009 13:05:09 GMT -5 PHOBES said:

I don't know, I guess I'm just not a deep enough thinker to see the beauty in songs where I can barely understand what the singer is saying. In advance, I'll apologize to anyone I offended with this.

To each his own. It's OK.

This song is pretty alright; does not sound like a radio single at all. They'll probably continue as some cult band or something that doesn't get a lot of radio play but continues to sell.

And sometimes you don't need that. Vampire Weekend's album from last year didn't do amazing as far as singles but that one's gone into the 400k mark at least. In a time of dwindling sales.