Helplessness Blues

metacritic

aoty

sputnikmusic

fantano

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

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.

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 […]