A Captivating and Kindred Experience

The Fleet Foxes EP release Sun Giant is a captivating and pastoral experience. The beginning track, “Sun Giant”, leaves you spellbound with it’s peaceful harmony. It really is an album that paints a picture. When listening to “Down in the River” and “English House”, I can’t help but picture the rustic imagery. To me, the album’s  climax is halfway through “Mykonos”, when the Fleet Foxes break into a mesmerizing harmonious bridge that truly shows the bands vocal talents.

The Sun Giant might be the bands first release, but it sounds far from a band in it’s infancy. The closing song, “Innocent Son”, is a gracious ballad that makes you feel like you are sitting right next to frontman Robin Pecknold.This album is one of the first new albums i’ve heard in a while to stay true to traditional music roots. The Stranger, a Seattle newspaper, recently reported Pecknold stating that “heand his crew grew up on their parents’ records—Crosby, Stills, and Nash; the Beach Boys; the Zombies; Joni Mitchell; Simon and Garfunkel—and they wanted to make music that was more true to those roots.” The Sun Giant definitely has old school feel, but with an unique and modern twist that will truly delight the senses.

 ~TJK

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