Released: 2020
Excerpt from the contemporary review of Shore:
“Right about the time that Fleet Foxes third album, 2017’s Crack Up was released, front man Robin Pecknold appeared to be having something of existential crisis; shocked by the outcome of the 2016 U.S. election, the singer filled it’s songs with allegories to a different America, one of protest and lack of place, a bulwark against what he felt the juddering halt to social cohesion and progress the result offered implied.
Shore arrives in the midst of pandemic and arguably where the situation has deteriorated not improved, but rather than a retreat into mawkish self-pity, Pecknold has brought a new vigour to his own table, one that’s injected this new material with an attractive and approachable stride.”
The dividends are frequently rapturous: At times, Shore is the record which Fleet Foxes have been threatening (gently) to make in what feels like an eternity. Jara twists with a rapt, neo-psychedelic burr, whilst Can I Believe You is so effortlessly graceful and uplifting that any hint of strife is relegated to the tumbleweed of the past.”
The Voice Of Unreason 