![]() And that's not a bad thing.īut despite our post-modern take on what constitutes the American folk canon, young folk musicians and their critics lack a common knowledge of folk's storied history. Tejano, Cajun, and Native American music now enjoy the same level of treatment as Appalachian folk, blues, and southern country did just a few decades ago. Since the 1960s folk revival, however, authenticity plays almost no role in the discussion of "folk" music, as everything born in America falls under the ever-broadening genre tag. Child, the great British folk song collector, traveled to America and based the Appalachian folk tradition off of his already established canon in Britain, the question of what qualifies as "folk" and "American" has bolstered, destroyed, or altered the perceptions of countless artists: Pete Seeger singing labor protest songs during the McCarthy era, Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, and Muddy Waters taking the Delta blues and fusing it with Chicago's industrialized urban energy. The question of authenticity runs rampant throughout the history of America's folk canon. ![]() ![]() It's like watching the sun rise over distant mountaintops, over and over, familiar and captivating all at once.", 4 stars out of 5 - "The quintet win solely on the strength of their complex but unaffectedly lovely songs.A pure pleasure.", Ranked #5 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2008" - "Fleet Foxes distinguish themselves from the vintage-vinyl crowd by infusing their rootsy retro-pop moves with a sense of mystery.", "'Ragged Wood' moseys in on breezy harmonies, transforming the folk rock to beach pop in the pick of a high, tensile guitar string." - Grade: A, 4 stars out of 5 - "FLEET FOXES is warm and cathartic, with all the hopefulness of a balmy summer night.", "From the a capella opening to 'White Winter Hymnal' and the mature folk sensibility of 'Tiger Mountain Peasant Song,' this album heralds the arrival of an interesting, seductive and confidently singular sound.Review Summary: The next classic addition to America's great, historic folk canon. Ranked #1 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2008" - "A musical tonic of our times a reminder of what humanity is capable of.", 3.5 stars out of 5 - "Fleet Foxes go for a somber, bombed-out hippy vibe, with acoustic guitars and five-part harmonies filling 'White Winter Hymns' and 'Blue Ridge Mountains.'", Ranked #11 in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2008 - "The prettiest album of the year, and the warmest.", Ranked #25 in Clash's "The 40 Best Albums of 2008" - "Blending the sweetness and innocence of '60s AM radio gems and Californian harmonies with shimmering, wide-open guitars, Fleet Foxes are a truly special band.", 4 stars out of 5 - "A lower-dosage Animal Collective, the Foxes stuff their free-form songs with rich, swirling melodies bellowing clouds of organs.and bells and assorted stringed instruments.", "'Ragged Wood' begins with a shuffling twang, but before settling too deeply into the standard top-down AMericana, the song downshifts into a loose, lovesick midsection whose eventual peak feels as natural as it does surprising.", "What we take away from the album is less a collection of specific moments and more of a feeling.
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