It’s been over a year since Seattle folk outfit Fleet Foxes released their sprawling and bewitching third album Crack-Up, but the band is still finding new ways to interpret and display some of their most mysterious work. The latest offering comes in a new short film for album opener “I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar.”
The surrealist video matches the mystique of the music, following actor Jean Charles as he chases down (and is possibly chased by) an ominous hovering cube. The video ranges from an empty desk in an empty room, desert roads, mountains, and murky purple waters. It’s a haunting portrayal of one of the band’s most ambitious musical works.
Watch the video below and revisit the band’s KEXP in-studio from 2017.
As I walked into The Paramount, soft shades of yellow and orange illuminated the stage, as shapes slowly changed and morphed into other forms. The colors reflected off of The Paramount’s chandeliers and ornate decorations, and the crowd stood and stared at various points through the venue that glow…
"Welcome to the show (We Missed You)", the projector screen read before Fleet Foxes made their homecoming on a warm May evening. From the chatter and mingling happening in the crowd ahead of the set, it was clear that the feeling was mutual. It'd been five years since the Seattle group played their…
Folk - like rock, hip-hop, or jazz - is one of those elevated sub-genres on the music tree of life that’s just specific enough to conjure an immediate sound in one’s imagination while being just broad enough to have an endless array of tendrils splintering off of its hefty branch. Joanna Newsom and…
