Fleet Foxes touring Crack-Up, London Brixton Academy (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
Robin Pecknold used his Vote Ready livestream set to debut a new Fleet Foxes song last Friday.
Covers were the order of the day for most of the performance – renditions of Athur Russell’s I Never Get Lonesome and The Roches’ Hammond Song aired by Pecknold as he played his part in urging those in the United States to register to vote ahead of the Presidential election later this year – but there was also some new Fleet Foxes in the form of Featherweight, which gives us a first glimpse into the future after the release of Crack-Up in 2017.
“Is resolution, knotting of all these threads, possible?,” our review reads. “The titular ending suggests the possibility, Pecknold himself describing the record’s conclusion as a ‘bright clearing’. Together, Fleet Foxes have created a suite of songs for both puritans and rebels, musically as timeless and demure as their former colleague Tillman’s cannon is as confrontational and zeitgeist-mounting.”
“Whether salvation lies in one man’s world or another, the Crack-Up listener’s journey shows them a life no less traumatised, but offering the stridency of hope.”