“The band’s third album is their most complex and compelling to date. Robin Pecknold’s songwriting retreats inward while around him dense folk compositions rise and fall on a massive scale.”
“Fleet Foxes triumphantly emerge from hiatus with their most progressive effort yet.”
“In September 2016, Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold had a dilemma. While mocking up meticulous designs for ‘Crack-Up’, the Seattle band’s first album in six years, he discovered fellow choral indie lot Local Natives had been using the same font as him. “What would u do?” he asked fans on Instagram. “Would u hold fast or find a new font?” He stood firm with SimSun, but other than its typeface n”
“It’s been six years since we last had a new record from Fleet Foxes, during which time their frontman Robin Pecknold has picked up a university degree, and their sometime drummer Josh Tillman has emerged from his chrysalis to become Father John Misty. Returning from that extended hiatus with ‘Crack-Up’, it seems that Fleet Foxes have made a conscious decision to do things slightly differently this”
