Fleet Foxes will return June 16th with Crack-Up, the follow-up to 2011's Helplessness Blues. The band announced the album on Tuesday and released "Third of May/Ōdaigahara," which shows that their harmony-heavy folk rock remains intact.

 

"Third of May/Ōdaigahara" is an ambitious composition with string orchestration, multiple voices rising in unison and marked shifts from loud to quiet. At several points during the nearly nine-minute song, the pounding piano falls to leave a lone singer, who sounds fragile and isolated. The band roars back to full volume, but in the final minutes of the song are voiceless and beat-less – just a soothing wash of strings.

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/fle...us-tour-w470737

 

'White Winter Hymnal' is an all-time favourite (and other songs that I have heard from them have generally been good) so I am glad to see that they have new music out this year!

 

An almost 9 minute long comeback single is certainly brave *.* but no bad thing to my ears as this is rather magnificent. :heart: I love that it starts out sounding pretty epic, then grinds to a halt a bit and finishes off with those gorgeous strings. Lovely lil journey. Excited for more!

:o everyone making comebacks this week, first Lorde, then alt-J and now this.

 

The strings near the end of this track <3

need to go and re-listen to their debut, it's been a while

 

second album was disappointing, not bad, but didn't compare to their debut

 

some of my favourites:

Your Protector

 

White Winter Hymnal - of course a Birdie cover :D

 

Mykonos

 

Blue Ridge Mountains

 

oh wow this is stunning <33333 They never disappoint

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