Via Twitter:
@robynkonichiwa Robyn! Even though FF Sings was fake we WILL cover something! I’m obsessed with you and think you’re the greatest!
— Robin Pecknold (@rpecknold) January 17, 2012
Update: Pecknold now says he plans to cover “Call Your Girlfriend.” A fake Foxes cover of Robyn spurring actual Foxes to do a Robyn cover. The future!
So some anonymous bros are recording covers of pop songs in imitation of Fleet Foxes? Why? I have no idea, but I love it. Like, whoever had this idea and executed it would probably really fun to hang out with at a party, is what I’m saying. Three beers in and they’re like, “let’s get our falsettos on and sing Rihanna in the style of Robin Pecknold.” They even managed to fool Robyn with what is actually a pretty great cover of “Dancing on My Own.”
Anyway, the future is weird and we live in it.
Or if that’s not your thing, stream the new Antlers. The important thing is that you stream something!
From Tom Breihan’s interview today with Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes:
I think it will just be a different feeling instead of mellow. But positive— it will just be a different feeling from that. Different chord shapes, some extended. On the first record, I kind of wanted to avoid any extended grooves. But there’s definitely a couple of those coming in now, where the guitar part almost sounds like it could be a sample, just because it’s kind of repetitive, and then just kind of a groove built around that part.
Am I the only one who was not missing ‘extended grooves’ in the Fleet Foxes record?
Fleet Foxes by the Silent Giant. (via)
Byline on Grantland. I am seriously giddy. Click, read and listen to my Songs of the Week if you are so inclined.
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