The goodness keeps coming. I know I just posted about my undying love for Fleet Foxes last week, but they’ve turned out another incredible vid. If they make it, I will post.
Teaming up again with Sean Pecknold’s Grandchildren, the stop-motion vid for “Mykonos” took 4 weeks to complete and more patience and razor sharp hand-eye coordination than I can fathom.
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Also check out the making of vid:
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Fleet Foxes are the shit. Their debut album was easily one of the best, if not the best album, of 2008. Fleet Foxes have a sound that’s undefinable in words and completely their own. Airy and organic – their music feels like folk tales, camp fire songs, whispers, lullabyes, and odes. When I close my eyes it makes me feel like I’m being swept along a hillside. The sound is timeless – like the songs weren’t necessarily written, but have always been there.
Their videos are equally sublime. Directed by Grandchildren (a.k.a. Sean Pecknold, the brother of lead singer and guitarist Robin Pecknold) the video for “He Doesn’t Know Why” is a perfect visual manifestation for this track. It’s like it rolled out of the woods and onto my laptop.
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In case you missed it when it first dropped, Pecknold also directly the awe-inducing vid for Fleet Foxes’ “White Winter Hymnal”…
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Ah, Fleet Foxes. How do I love thee, let me count the ways. Fleet Foxes are one of the most unbelievably awesome bands ever. They’re not even a band. They’re an experience. They defy description or genre and the sounds of their music are like an elevation into purity.
La Blogotheque and director Vincent Moon have given us a vision as serene and beyond description as Fleet Foxes themselves as part of their mind-numbingly awesome video concert series “A Take Away Show.” Bon Iver, Lykke Li, Efterklang, Vampire Weekend, José Gonzaléz, and Final Fantasy are just some of the crazy amazing artists featured in the series, and if any of them are your thing they are must-watch.
Though, for me, it just doesn’t get much better than Fleet Foxes. Especially when their brilliance has been captured acoustically after sneaking into an abandoned, vaulted-ceilinged wing of one of Paris’ most esteemed buildings – Le Grand Palais. If I ever saw Fleet Foxes live in Paris I think I could probably die after. For now, this will do…
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“Dream of the impossible and you’ll get something even better. For the Fleet Foxes, we wanted a huge empty place, and impressive, if possible. We wanted echo, we wanted a lot of space, we wanted something unseen. At the Grand Palais, on the central walkways running along the neve where Richard Serra’s monumental pillars were installed, was a door sealed with an iron bar. Behind that door, a disused university and an infinity of corridors, abandoned as if at short notice after a shooting epidemic. A couple of chairs, smashed doors, pigeon dejections on the worn carpets and pigeons flying above our heads, under unreasonably high ceilings.”
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