Robin Pecknold, “Two Headed Boy” MP3 (Neutral Milk Hotel Cover)
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo John Francis Peters
How bad are music nerds (us) freaking out over this right now? Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes (aka the band that everyone including parents likes) performed solo at a benefit for Seattle’s all-ages music center The Vera Project. To draw people who actually make money, the venue served drinks with alcohol in them and Pecknold performed a set of Fleet Foxes songs as well as a bunch of covers, including Neutral Milk Hotel’s “Two Headed Boy.” Next week he’ll be performing at a benefit for the survivors of the Great Pitchfork Mind Explosion of 2009. Jokes! But only because the entire set is jam city.
Download: Robin Pecknold, “Two Headed Boy” (Neutral Milk Hotel cover) (via Chocolate Bobka)
Freeload: Wilco & Fleet Foxes, “I Shall Be Released” (Bob Dylan Cover)
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A couple weeks ago we posted the above video of Wilco and Fleet Foxes super-banding Dylan’s classic at a show in Oregon and pined for the days of Last Waltz-ian onstage brotherhood, keeping the dream alive for everyone who still believes in the power of scruffy dudes to create some transcendent moments. We’ll leave it up to you to decide how powerful this song actually is by saying you can only get it (if you’re an honest person) if you go to Wilco World and pledge to vote in November’s presidential election.
Download: Wilco & Fleet Foxes, “I Shall Be Released” (Bob Dylan Cover)
Video: Fleet Foxes + Wilco, “I Shall Be Released”
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Although it’s lacking Creepy Coked Out Neil Young leering behind Joni Mitchell, it’s cool to see modern folksters Fleet Foxes and Wilco get together to cover “I Shall Be Released ” in the unofficial continuation of weird Fleet Foxes videos that find their way to our site (Thanks, Daniel). Sure Wilco + Fleet Foxes does not equal Coked Out Van Morrison In A Crazy ’70s Outfit (this is the best we could find.) — but it does equal the shedding of a stoic tear, and us going home to watch The Last Waltz a couple times in a row.
Video: Two Swedish Teenagers Sing A Fleet Foxes Song In The Woods
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Here is a video of two Swedish teenagers sitting on a stump in the woods covering Fleet Foxes‘ “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song.” At first we were a little bummed to find out that these girls are, in fact, not just a couple of semi-crazy regular people but actually have a band and potentially even an established fanbase (they’re signed to The Knife’s label Rabid Records). But then we remembered that bands covering their favorite songs can be incredible, that Fleet Foxes are huge in Scandinavia (no lie), that we love the shit out of flannel and regular people can be super boring sometimes.
Video: Fleet Foxes, “White Winter Hymnal”
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There’s something vaguely religious and impenetrable about Fleet Foxes, but there is also something romantic and safe about them. So in this video for “White Winter Hymnal,” when bearded clay people control the stars with the wheel of a ship that every so often starts going too fast, it makes total sense. What doesn’t make sense is when claymation beards move with minds of their own, each individual strand wiggling in the wind. Creepy. After the jump check out Sam Hockley-Smith’s Gen F on Fleet Foxes from F54.
Audio: Fleet Foxes Stream Their Entire Album
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Today is apparently the day where we listen to all music streaming on MySpace. F54 Gen F-ers (on stands now!) Fleet Foxes make soaring folk-pop, soothing to wake up to and soothing to fall asleep to—expansive and intimate at the same time. They also have their upcoming Sub Pop release streaming here, which we can get with because if you want to listen to this right now then nothing should stop you. We’re currently trying to decide the best activity to do while listening, and so far we’ve got either sitting in a rocking chair next to a fire or rolling down a hill.
Listen to Fleet Foxes’ self-titled album here.
