Album Rating: 5.0

I like this and Grizzly Bear so it should be a win/win

Album Rating: 5.0

Holy shit Boney



That Daniel Rossen album is the real deal

Rossen's album sounds like Grizzly Bear. Sort of Shields material. I really like it.

This album, Crack-Up, is also fantastic. I love it.

Album Rating: 4.0

I had a feeling you’d like it Sowing!

Album Rating: 5.0

It really is like a cross between Shields era Grizzly Bear and Crack-Up era Fleet Foxes. What a whirlwind of classical avant-garde prog folk. Holy fuck.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah I guess Shields is the closest Grizzly Bear comparison.

Christopher Bear is always great to listen to play. He delivers the goods.

Album Rating: 1.0

huge letdown after the first two

Album Rating: 5.0

agreed

Shame you don't like it. I think it's a great counter-point to Helplessness Blues. A very rewarding album.

Album Rating: 5.0

This is by far their most ambitious and their best. It's a little more prog-folk than HB was which is what I'm guessing lost some folks.

I saw people describe it as 'challenging' or 'difficult'? I suppose the level of subversion and adherence to more tension in the chord progression might lend to that, but I didn't find that matched up for me.

It's a great body of songs all the same.

Album Rating: 5.0

For me I felt it was more complex and less structured than HB, so I definitely understand viewing this as a challenge. However, the melodies are still quite strong at times even if they're juxtaposed with more advanced musicianship, so I always felt that this was a piece that rewarded persistence/dedication on the part of the listener.

Personally, I like their big and explorative songs. The opening song on this is so grand. It's great stuff. Also all the harmonic dissonance throughout the album? I love it.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yesss. Agreed 100% and 'explorative' is the perfect way to describe that song. I love the soft-to-loud progression and when those strings kick in it feels like the wind hitting your back and carrying you away into this mystical, magical world.

Album Rating: 4.5

I love every Fleet Foxes album, but this is clearly my favorite of them at this point. That said, I don't think there's another album (by any artist) which took me longer to fully appreciate than this one.

Might give it a listen now, actually. Fancy myself in the mood.

Album Rating: 4.0

Gotta give this another listen soon. I remember liking it quite a bit, but nothing has beaten Helplessness Blues for me so far

It's a weird engineering on this one. They left in all the clipping, thought I oddly like it? When it happens at the climax of the final song, it almost seems fitting.

There's also that really quiet phone-call on 'Third of May'. Suppose it makes sense given the themes of the song but it's mixed sooo quietly.

Album Rating: 5.0

This album is really just a more ambitious Helplessness Blues. It's like avant-folk without sacrificing any of the beautiful harmony...