On “Shore,” Fleet Foxes Find Levity Amid Heavy Losses
By John Mark Mills
Band’s fourth album plays to their strengths while striking a prescient tone.
On their eponymous 2008 album, Fleet Foxes, a Seattle-based indie rock band fronted by vocalist Robin Pecknold, delivered harmony-heavy songs saturated with the warmth of summer. On their next two albums, 2011’s “Helplessness Blues” and 2017’s “Crack-Up,” Pecknold and company largely departed from the airy indie-folk instrumentation and sunlit storytelling of their debut, embracing moodier and more experimental textures. Now with “Shore,” the band’s fourth album, Fleet Foxes has corralled these ...
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