this album is taking way too long to come out.

hurry up, subpop!

to say that the fleet foxes LP is my most-anticipated release of the year would be a severe understatement.

That ep is too damn good...I'm looking forward to this. Hope vinyl has mp3 download

agreed with 1:48

i can't wait for another NYC gig!

the vinyl will likely come with a download. i think sub pop gives free downloads for all vinyl ordered for their website. that's what happened when i pre-ordered the grand archives album, at least.

i really love their album covers, too.

well worth the wait. "blue ridge mountains" is definitely the standout track on the album. i can't wait to see them again!

where's the silo?? bought the EP and was extremely disappointed. sounds remarkably like My Morning Jacket.

this band is sonically great, but this album cover is fucking pretentious to the max. give me a break.

the song, however, is great.

i am worried that in a year, these dudes will be more douchey than colin meloy. i hope i am proven wrong.

This album cover is pretty pretentious.

Pieter Bruegel's "Netherlandish Proverbs"

just putting a classic painting on your album cover doesn't make you cool, it makes you lack creativity and think you are cool for acknowledging the beauty of something you didn't create, when in reality you lack the ability to create that thing yourselves.

i think cloud cult were going for something like this with their (worse) cover...

aren't most album covers made by artists(not the band)? what's the difference if it is some contemporary work vs. a great classic?

it may be a little pretentious, but i think it is appropriate none the less, so what's the big deal?

does the rule don't judge a book by its cover apply to bands and album covers? who gives a damn about cover art anyway? also, if you saw the band the last time they were in new york you would't use the word pretentious in a sentence when talking about them. then again, you probably don't even know the proper definition of pretentious is. so let me clear that up for you:

1: characterized by pretension: as a: making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value or standing) b: expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature
2: making demands on one's skill, ability, or means

Is it pretentious because it's really old? I guess "fine art" can be a pretty pretentious world and maybe this feels "fine art"y but we just picked it cause it's really beautiful and there's a ton of bizarre stuff going on when you really get a good look at the whole thing (I am excited to get the vinyl back from the manufacturers for this reason). And all the little scenes correspond to a different Dutch proverb:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlandish_Proverbs

At the risk of getting really pretentious (though my knowledge of these topics extends not much further than what I'm saying in this comment), the Hieronymus Bosch stuff is even more fucked up, "psychedelic" like 500 years before that word existed! Those are my two favorite painters, but that's probably because I know very very few painters.

Anyhoo, you guys should love our next record due 2009, "Cloak of Ravens, Book III: Blinding the All Seeing Eye (or, For A Few Dubloons More)" It's really down to earth sounding.

is that the actual album title?
and is that actually robin pecknold?
heh

i like the colored/pixelated album cover i have on the leaked copy of this album better.

cover art aside, this record is out already and it's great.

they have today's Daytrotter session!

i call 'em like i see 'em.

i really like this band, but this album cover made me roll my eyes. however, it's not as bad as the imaging of Seattle's other reverb soaked Phil Ek project:

http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/band-of-horses_1.jpg

at least Fleet Foxes are going for hi-art pretention and not trying to be the fucking Black Crowes.

and, yes. i have seen them. in nyc and at SXSW. and the lead singer is amazing. however, he really needs to take a shower. that dirty hippy bit looks great but he really smells TERRIBLE. i hope the bank he makes off this amazing record means he'll take some showers from time to time.

I think whoever is in charge of their cover art has a great eye -- in both the case of the ep and the lp, "originality" aside, the art compliments the sound/lyrical content of the album very well, which I would say is what makes for a successful album cover.

their ep cover wasn't altogether original in its own right, but stunning AND hella creative just the same.

exhibit A:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/