Fleet Foxes touring Crack-Up, London Brixton Academy (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
Fleet Foxes have increased the lifespan of last year’s Crack-Up album with an official video for If You Need To, Keep Time On Me – directed by Ryan Heffington.
Live4ever named Crack-Up – the band’s first record in over six years – one of our top picks of 2017: “Where Fleet Foxes’ debut was an angelical take on the roots music of the American 20th century, its pastoral grace was usurped somewhat by Helplessness Blues’ introduction of influences varying from free jazz to rapturous flamenco,” our review reads.
“What perhaps in simplistic terms was needed was a record that took both stories and brought them together as a more singular entity: Crack-Up, gratifyingly, is precisely that.”
“Not, perhaps, that this is the expectation with the dirgeful introductory phase of opener I Am All That I Need/Arroyo Seco/Thumbprint Scar. For a moment the listener may worry that their patience has only been rewarded by well-intended misdirection. This sensation lasts only a moment, as segmentally they’re transported to by now the well familiar byways of harmony and melody, Pecknold’s voice grain to the headwinds of joyous revivalism.”
