SNL’s musical guest last night was the Seattle-based indie folk act Fleet Foxes. The band, which rose to prominence as an unsigned band on myspace, performed two songs off their self-titled debut studio album, Mykonos and Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Guardian likens them to ”idiosyncratic hymnal non-religious church music,” or ”wonder rock,” a stylized kind of americana akin to Arcade Fire and The Polyphonic Spree. Yet the Foxes shed the jaunty, exaggerated vocals that populate the genre, instead crafting songs with soft, layered harmonies and varied orchestration (think mandolins and dulcimers), achieving what the band describes as “baroque harmonic pop jams.”
Sounds Like: The Zombies if they lived during the Baroque period.
Take a listen to the tracks below, or check out their page here.
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