Fleet Foxes touring Crack-Up, London Brixton Academy (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
Fleet Foxes‘ Crack-Up touring has been keeping them busy since the early days of summer, and will continue on to the final month of 2017. Right now, it’s in the UK for a handful of dates which included two nights at the Brixton Academy in London.
Alberto Pezzali was there on November 26th for our gallery.
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Crack-Up became the first Fleet Foxes record in over six years when it was released in June. “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.”