Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues CultsLike 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 Morrisons 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
8 Must Be in Here Somewhere
” Pratt hits on a profound
Mariachi El Bronx (and was written while that incarnation of the band was on tour)
nearly 100 years after debuting the first sound cartoon in 1926
evincing a clear restlessness with convention and repetition
Is the debut album by English post-punk band Gang of Four
Morby-the globetrotting son of Kansas City who has made music while living on both coasts before recently returning to his Midwestern stomping grounds-recognizes in himself a somewhat spiritual being with a secular attitude towards the soulful
4 At the End of the Day
and Tripper’s best songs are rooted in catchy
Ronnie Wood and Stephen Stills
A collection of songs from the Oh Boy Records catalog curated by independent record stores
The sound will continue to draw comparisons to the country-funkiness of The Band
