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Helplessness Blues

Item: Helplessness Blues
Rating: 10
Author: sputnikmusic

Fleet Foxes (2011)

10/ 10

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Other reviews of Helplessness Blues

metacritic

8.5

aoty

8.8

ben

9.6

fantano

On Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes improve just about everything that they were doing on their last album.

9.0

pitchfork

After making a splash in 2008 with a strong EP and brilliant full-length debut, Fleet Foxes return with a darker album that's equally assured.

8.8

rollingstone

Click to listen to the Fleet Foxes' Helplessness Blues The beauty is skin-deep on the second album by the Pacific Northwest band Fleet Foxes. With its gleaming acoustic guitars, acid-folk brush strokes (harmonium, hammered dulcimer) and warming choral harmonies, Helplessness Blues is vocalist-songwriter Robin Pecknold's dazzling evocation of early-Seventies rock Eden: the Sunflower-era Beach Boys […]

8.0