Fleet Foxes surprise-udgiver nyt album Shore – ude nu digitalt!

I dag har Fleet Foxes overrasket fans verden over med udgivelsen af deres fjerde album Shore, der er ude digitalt nu på Anti- / Playground Music. D. 5. februar 2021 udkommer albummet fysisk.  Sammen med udgivelsen af Shore, deler Fleet Foxes en 16mm kunstfilm af samme navn, skabt af Kersti Jan Werdal. Filmen viser landskaberne omkring Pacific Northwest-området til lyden af albummet. Se videoen her.

 
Shore er indspillet både før og under den verdensomspændte karantæne i Hudson (NY), Paris, Los Angeles, Long Island City og i New York City, i en periode fra september 2018 til september 2020, med hjælp fra producer og tekniker Beatriz Artola. De femten sange, på det 55-minutter-lange album, er inspireret af forsanger Robin Pecknolds musikalske helte som Arthur Russell, Nina Simone, Sam Cooke, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guebrou, samt mange flere, der, ifølge Robin, formår at hylde livet.
Han siger:
 “I see “shore” as a place of safety on the edge of something uncertain, staring at Whitman’s waves reciting ‘death’. Tempted by the adventure of the unknown at the same time you are relishing the comfort of the stable ground beneath you. This was the mindset I found, the fuel I found, for making this album.”
 
Pecknold fortsætter:
 
“Since the unexpected success of the first Fleet Foxes album over a decade ago, I have spent more time than I’m happy to admit in a state of constant worry and anxiety. Worried about what I should make, how it will be received, worried about the moves of other artists, my place amongst them, worried about my singing voice and mental health on long tours. I’ve never let myself enjoy this process as much as I could, or as much as I should. I’ve been so lucky in so many ways in my life, so lucky to be born with the seeds of the talents I have cultivated and lucky to have had so many unreal experiences. Maybe with luck can come guilt sometimes. I know I’ve welcomed hardship wherever I could find it, real or imagined, as a way of subconsciously tempering all this unreal luck I’ve had. By February 2020, I was again consumed with worry and anxiety over this album and how I would finish it. But since March, with a pandemic spiraling out of control, living in a failed state, watching and participating in a rash of protests and marches against systemic injustice, most of my anxiety around the album disappeared. It just came to seem so small in comparison to what we were all experiencing together. In its place came a gratitude, a joy at having the time and resources to devote to making sound, and a different perspective on how important or not this music was in the grand scheme of things. Music is both the most inessential and the most essential thing. We don’t need music to live, but I couldn’t imagine life without it. It became a great gift to no longer carry any worry or anxiety around the album, in light of everything that is going on. A tour may not happen for a year, music careers may not be what they once were. So it may be, but music remains essential. This reframing was another stroke of unexpected luck I have been the undeserving recipient of. I was able to take the wheel completely and see the album through much better than I had imagined it, with help from so many incredible collaborators, safe and lucky in a new frame of mind.”
 
Læs det fylde statement her.
 
Om Shore filmen
 
Shore er en kunstfilm filmet over en periode på en måned i Washington, Oregon og det vestlige Idaho på 16mm film.
 
“I listened to the album while driving, and observationally shot landscapes that I felt resonated with the music, yet also stood on their own,” forklarer instruktør Kersti Jan Werdal. “The film is intended to co-exist and engage with the album, rather than be in a direct and symbiotic relationship with it. The urban and narrative scenes interact with the more surreal landscapes, rather than sit in opposition of one another. My hope is that the film, much like the album does, reflects optimism and strength.”

Shore trackliste 
1. Wading In Waist-High Water: lyric video HERE
2. Sunblind: lyric video HERE 
3. Can I Believe You: lyric video HERE
4. Jara: lyric video HERE
5. Featherweight: lyric video HERE
6. A Long Way Past The Past: lyric video HERE
7. For A Week Or Two: lyrics video HERE
8. Maestranza: lyric video HERE
9. Young Man's Game: lyric video HERE
10. I'm Not My Season: lyric video HERE
11. Quiet Air / Gioia: lyric video HERE
12. Going-to-the-Sun Road: lyric video HERE
13. Thymia: lyric video HERE
14. Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman: lyric video HERE
15. Shore: lyric video HERE
 

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