aaamusic | On 30, Mar 2011

FLEET FOXES have just unveiled the video to the track “Grown Ocean” from new album “Helplessness Blues” on their website. Directed by Sean Pecknold and awash with arresting images, the video beautifully captures snap-shots from the making of “Helplessness Blues” and life in the Pacific Northwest… “Grown Ocean” is the closing track on “Helplessness Blues”. Click on the stills or link below to check it out…

http://fleetfoxes.com/grownocean.html

Robin Pecknold, Fleet Foxes’ singer, talked about the new album, “Helplessness Blues”:

“Musically it leans on country music a little bit more, in the slide guitar of songs like “Grown Ocean” and “Bedouin Dress” or “Helplessness Blues.” We used a number of new instruments including the 12-string guitar, the hammered dulcimer, zither, upright bass, wood flute, tympani, Moog synthesizer, the tamboura, the fiddle, the marxophone, clarinet, the music box, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, Tibetan singing bowls, vibraphone, along with more traditional band instrumentation.

OK! I think that covers most of it. The last thing I’ll talk about is the title. It’s called Helplessness Blues for a number of reasons. One, it’s kind of a funny title. Secondly, one of the prevailing themes of the album is the struggle between who you are and who you want to be or who you want to end up being, and how sometimes you are the only thing getting in the way of that. That idea shows up in a number of the songs.”