The fleet foxes make me like music that I don’t even like. From the first listen I could hear Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young &…&…&… Their influence is all over the disc. But I have four CSN albums on my computer and I can not listen to any of them as they don’t pass the skip test. But after spending several nights enraptured by Fleet Foxes I find that I can listen to CSN and not be completely turned off, although it is because I am listening for the roots of the Foxes’ sound.

White Winter Hymnal is entrancing and it offers up the Parsifal-like imagery of the blood and the snow with some line about kercheifs keeping their heads on? What? But oh if it isn’t entrancing.


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