The Fleet Foxes have been awarded album of the year from the best music magazine in the world Mojo Magazine.  Are they another Arctic Monkeys or actually good? 

With five part vocal harmonies, this band echoes their folk influences on their sleeves.  They’ve done their homework and are actually able to pull off the harmonies without sounding like a boy band.  Influences The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills & Nash, Simon & Garfunkel, The Zombies, and more than anything else Steeleye Span.  In fact, the first thing that comes to mind on the first track “Red Squirrel/Sun Rises” is “Are these guys the offspring from Steeleye Span?”   It also sounds like a mishmash of Crosby Stills & Nash or Simon & Garfunkel.

This album has a lot of references to family members.  Robin Pecknold (the songwriter/singer/guitarist) had recently lost his grandfather while recording this album.  Surprisingly, these guys are from Seattle even though they sound like they’re from Woodstock or the South.  Every family member is mentioned on most of these songs including the grandpa on one or two, mother, sister, and father.  Most of all the brother is mentioned as in telling him to be good, staying at his house and missing flights.