FLEET FOXES & IRON & WINE ~ 2 CD Lot ~ HELPLESSNESS BLUES / WOMAN KING
Two CD releases featuring, for want of a better description, two examples of fine modern Indie Folk...Fleet Foxes with a full length album and Iron and Wine with one of his EP releases...full details for each, below...
- Playtested...each!
- In good condition, light surface marks to each disc, as per 'used' status and there are no playback problems, it's all good!
- Various pictures uploaded, all taken from the actual items, what you see is what you get...study the pictures carefully, they are part of the description, too.
- The jewel cases have the usual light scuffing and other small signs of shelfwear, etc, but are in good working order.
- The inlay booklets / cards are in very good condition, any specific details for these items are listed below.
- For tracklisting details see either the pictures of the discs, or the pictures of the rear of the inlay cards...
- Check all the details listed below carefully, make sure these are the ones you want.
Fleet Foxes ~ Helplessness Blues
'Props to Helplessness Blues for making the fretless zither cool again. On their second album, Fleet Foxes continue to take their music in unusual directions, creating a baroque folk-pop sound that hints at a number of varied influences but is too unique, too esoteric, too damn weird to warrant any direct links between the Seattle boys and their predecessors. It's still a downright gorgeous record, though, filled to the brim with glee club harmonies and the sort of stringed instruments that are virtually unknown to anyone who didn't go to music school (and even if you did, when's the last time you rocked out on the Marxophone?). Despite the weird instrumentation, this album has the necessary songs to back it up, from the slow crescendos of the album-opening "Montezuma" to the sweeping orchestral arrangement of the encore number, "Grown Ocean" and the band's acoustic folk/chamber pop combo makes every song sound like a grand tribute to back-to-the-land living...'
12 tracks and 49 minutes.
On Sub Pop , catalog number SPCD 888
2011 CD album release.
Very light surface marks.
Digipak case, lyrics on inside gatefold.
Also comes with a 22" x 23" fold-out poster, see pictures for some close up details.
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Iron and Wine ~ Woman King
'There are a lot of ways to describe Iron & Wine's dark, woozy folk songs: writers and fans scramble to find the appropriate modifiers, the correct verbs, the variations on "hushed." We make references to babies and jokes about his beard, launching sweeping comparisons to bedroom poets past, yapping happily about Beam's "quietude" and "grace." And now, for the very first time, "loud" can be added to that arsenal of adjectives: the six-song Woman King EP, a follow-up to 2004's Our Endless Numbered Days, opens with relentlessly click-clacking pieces of wood and a brash slide riff, booming out in all directions. Woman King inches Beam even farther away from his scratchy lo-fi origins without sacrificing any of the microphone-eating intimacy that made his work so appealing to begin with...'
6 tracks and 24 minutes.
On Sub Pop, catalog number SPCD 663
2003 CD EP release.
4 page inlay card, with lyrics.
Buy-it-Now, two discs, one convenient package...
$11.99
Postage - USA - Free shipping....nice!
Media Mail, please note.
Tracking numbers will be added as early as possible.
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Thanks for looking!
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