Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes (Record, 2011)

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Helplessness Blues is the anticipated follow-up to Fleet Foxes' 2008 debut. Recorded and co-produced by fellow Seattleite Phil Ek, it finds the band continuing to take their music in unusual directions, creating a baroque folk-pop sound that hints at a number of influences, but is too unique to warrant any direct links between the Seattle boys and their predecessors.

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Record LabelSub Pop, Sub
UPC0098787088816
eBay Product ID (ePID)12046055545

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FormatRecord
Release Year2011
GenreIndie Rock/Pop
ArtistFleet Foxes
Release TitleHelplessness Blues

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Item Height0.32 in
Item Weight1.26 lb
Item Length12.44 in
Item Width12.28 in

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Number of Tracks12
Tracks1.1 Montezuma 1.2 Bedouin Dress 1.3 Sim Sala Bim 1.4 Battery Kinzie 1.5 The Plains/Bitter Dancer 1.6 Helplessness Blues 2.1 The Cascades 2.2 Lorelei 2.3 Someone You'd Admire 2.4 The Shrine/An Argument 2.5 Blue Spotted Tail 2.6 Grown Ocean
Number of Discs2
NotesLike very nearly every worthwhile thing, making this album was not easy; it was a difficult second album to make. Drawing inspiration from folk/rock from about 1965 to 1973, and Van Morrison's ASTRAL WEEKS in particular, HELPLESSNESS BLUES sees Fleet Foxes heighten and extend themselves, adding instrumentation (clarinet, the music box, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, Tibetan singing bowls, vibraphone, etc., along with more traditional band instrumentation), with a focus on clear, direct lyrics, and an emphasis on group vocal harmonies. We have it on good authority that the album is called HELPLESSNESS BLUES for at least a couple of reasons. One, it's kind of a funny title. Secondly, one of the prevailing themes of the album is the struggle between who you are and who you want to be or who you want to end up, and how sometimes you are the only thing getting in the way of that. Having heard HELPLESSNESS BLUES, we mean to get out of it's way.

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