Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes (2024)

1. Delusions of Adequacy

   100

   With their self-titled debut, Fleet Foxes have attained this and have delivered one of the best albums of the year.

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2. Entertainment Weekly

   100

   Hushed and wistful, Foxes evokes the itinerant days of yore...you know, before gas cost four bucks a gallon.

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3. Pitchfork

   90

   What follows is surprisingly full and wide ranging, almost as much as the Bruegel painting that graces the album's cover.

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4. Drowned In Sound

   80

   Fleet Foxes doesn't leave the stereo. Three, four, five times through-–these songs resonate over and over until they stick for good. A sign of a great record: words fail but a feeling remains.

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5. Rolling Stone

   80

   A lower-dosage Animal Collective, the Foxes stuff their free-form songs with rich, swirling melodies; billowing clouds of organs, tom-toms, bells and assorted stringed instruments cloak group vocals whose secular-gospel, suede-fringed precision owes plenty to Crosby, Stills and Nash.

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6. Uncut

   80

   Like the equally rapturous "Sun Giant" EP which preceded it, Fleet Foxes' debut album is a fastidious, sometimes overwhelmingly pretty evocation of the American wilderness; a dreamy companion piece to last month's superb Bon Iver album.

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7. Sputnikmusic

   60

   There's a huge promise to Fleet Foxes, one that can't be ignored, but Pecknold and the rest of the guys haven't tapped into it yet.

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1. RiceKrispiesDave

   Oct 4, 2009

   10

   Joe Blow you should go Blow a Joe, 'cause this album is great.

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2. MajhongT

   Dec 11, 2008

   10

   This album continued to impress me as I was introduced to quality song after quality song. I couldn't believe that so many unbelievable This album continued to impress me as I was introduced to quality song after quality song. I couldn't believe that so many unbelievable songs could come from one CD. Kudos Fleet Foxes.… Expand

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4. Mo

   Jun 5, 2008

   10

   This might be the best album of the year. Lush landscapes and texture. It's a different state of mind.

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5. marko

   Sep 25, 2009

   10

   Joe blow = typical pretentious opinion i'm glad there are at least some people who listen to the music for the music, not to be as Joe blow = typical pretentious opinion i'm glad there are at least some people who listen to the music for the music, not to be as obscure as possible to bolster their hipster cred.… Expand

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6. vasileiosP

   Oct 16, 2008

   9

   Steps higher than the rest untalented music that is out this year. 2nd only to the crazyness of Mgmt.

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7. RicardoC.

   Aug 27, 2009

   8

   Fleet Foxes, sounds pure, dreamy and is a pleasant album. Which is a lot to ask nowadays. (Maybe that's why "masses" liked it, Fleet Foxes, sounds pure, dreamy and is a pleasant album. Which is a lot to ask nowadays. (Maybe that's why "masses" liked it, superior-being Joe Blow, and tastes are different so but that logic anything is better than something, since there's no general agreement that something is good, and it doesn't really make any sense for metacritic to exist...).… Expand

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8. JoeBlow

   Jun 5, 2009

   Just another perfect example of the oldest misconception in the world, if everyone likes it that much, it must be good. Wrong. The way I see Just another perfect example of the oldest misconception in the world, if everyone likes it that much, it must be good. Wrong. The way I see it, if everybody likes it that much, it probably means that it's suited for the masses, meaning, common, saturated ideas that are more than likely being done better elsewhere, not en-masse.… Expand

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