![]() 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. otoh, that kind of oversharing has hardly held U2's career back, and though critics don't often appreciate it, a lot of people clearly do.įwiw, this album gets along very well with certain chemical enhancements.Review Summary: The next classic addition to America's great, historic folk canon. fleet foxes don't do restraint, and it makes them seem "easy" (to use a gross metaphor). there is virtue in restraint, in allowing only a little of that vocal/emotional sunshine in, holding it back, letting tension develop. Suppose i feel the same way about, say, U2. ― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9:50 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark That's my problem with them: every song is a special moment apparently. ― skip, Thursday, 9:49 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban I wish they had saved the gloopiest harmonies for special moments - at times it's like they focused more on the vocal chords than on the songs themselves. ![]() Utility is that it's dismissive, therefore useful in the dismissal of that which offends you know, when i get tired of turning this electric wizard record over and over and over again. so i've decided to try to like them, as a sort of thought experiment. i mean, i like fleetwood mac A FUCK OF A LOT, and even if they're just watered-down latter day pretenders to that kind of radiance, fleet foxes occasionally give me a similar chill. but nor am i 100% happy with the oppositional, elitist, punk-derived associations i forged in my youth, associations that seem to demand that i sneer down from on high at this sort of thing.īasically, it sucks to be held prisoner by what you think about the people who supposedly think certain things, by your assumptions about other people's assumptions about culture and meaning. it seems too undemandingly suburban, domestic, and i'm a fucking freak, dammit. ![]() i'm never gonna be a fan of comfy-style, beards & tevas 60s/70s revivalism, with music that combines earnest emotionalism with the desire to create a soothing campfire atmosphere. ![]() it's just that the ties that bind bind me to other things, and the distance seems unbridgeable. it has nothing to do with the fundamental quality of their music (whatever that might be) or even its subjective appeal. i say this because i'm across the divide, on some other team. they never make me think of music, even when i'm thinking of something undeniably beautiful, like "white winter hymnal" or "mykonos". Fleet foxes only ever make me think of the ways we identify with and construct identity through music.
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