what an alliterative post title. is that alliteration or consonance? i cant remember, nor do i really care. today were going to continue our look back at the 2008 pitchfork festival in preparation for the 2009 pitchfork festival, the second of my three music festival adventures this summer. last year i bought a ticket and was going to go just because, and didnt really know many of the bands playing, so i was pretty excited when i discovered fleet foxes a week or two after i bought my ticket, only to find out that they were in fact performing at the festival. they were part of the aforementioned hot, sticky, wet and muddy saturday of last years festival, but the weather seemed to break a little bit after their performance.

fleet foxes are super folky and awesome. their self-titled album sounds to me like a day in a cabin in the mountains. when the opening track “sun it rises” begins, you can almost see the sun rising over the distant rocky horizon, and this mood continues throughout the whole album. the song i chose from the album is “ragged wood”. this and mykonos are my favorite songs by them, in case you care. what was so great about their live performance, besides the dead silent crowd, was that they nailed all of their harmonies live. theyre really good at harmonies. i was especially looking forward to hearing the second half of this song live once i noticed how great their live harmonies were, but, just like m ward, the song i most wanted to hear was a song that they didnt play. great song, great band.

fleet foxes – ragged wood

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