| Win: a [super pretty] FLEET FOXES t-shirt! |
| Written by COUP DE MAIN | ||
| Sunday, 29 May 2011 13:11 | ||
FLEET FOXES' second album 'Helplessness Blues' is out now! "I think this music draws influence and inspiration from popular music and folk rock of the mid ‘60s to the early ’70s, folks like Peter Paul & Mary, John Jacob Niles, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Neil Young, CSN, Judee Sill, Ennio Morricone, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Zombies, SMiLE-era Brian Wilson, Roy Harper, Van Morrison, John Fahey, Robbie Basho, The Trees Community, Duncan Browne, the Electric Prunes, Trees, Pete Seeger, and Sagittarius, among many others. I’d say it’s a synthesis of folk rock, traditional folk, & psychedelic pop, with an emphasis on group vocal harmonies. Astral Weeks was a big inspiration on this album, if not always in sound then in approach. The raw emotion in Van Morrison’s vocals and the trance-like nature of the arrangements were very inspiring for this album! Musically it leans on country music a little bit more, in the slide guitar of songs like “Grown Ocean” and “Bedouin Dress” or “Helplessness Blues.” We used a number of new instruments including the 12-string guitar, the hammered dulcimer, zither, upright bass, wood flute, tympani, Moog synthesizer, the tamboura, the fiddle, the marxophone, clarinet, the music box, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, Tibetan singing bowls, vibraphone, along with more traditional band instrumentation." - ROBIN PECKNOLD, Fleet Foxes. Thanks to RHYTHMETHOD, we have two AMAZING Fleet Foxes t-shirts to give away in celebration of the release of 'Helplessness Blues'... To be entered into the draw to win one of the two Fleet Foxes t-shirts [as pictured below] - answer the following... Name your favourite song on 'Helplessness Blues' and explain why you love it. With FLEET FOXES COMP in the subject box, please e-mail your answer, full name, mailing address to: mail@coupdemainmagazine.com
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