https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15363-helplessness-blues/
Fleet Foxes' unpretentious, crowd-pleasing directness was the key to their rapid rise. Their Sun Giant EP and self-titled debut LP, both released in 2008, brimmed with inviting melodies, evocative

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/12100-fleet-foxes-helplessness-blues/
The most notable difference between "Helplessness Blues" and the Sun Giant/Fleet Foxes material is that frontman Robin Pecknold's words and vocals are front and center, high in the mix. Over a

https://www.stereogum.com/2145907/fleet-foxes-helplessness-blues/reviews/the-anniversary/
Crack-Up found Pecknold deeper in the shadows, anxiety and depression and longing conveyed through broken arrangements and more weathered music. Nearly 10 years on from the first Fleet Foxes an

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/2297-fleet-foxes-helplessness-blues.php
Andy Gill. With Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes triumphantly deliver on the promise of their popular debut, the album that helped establish folk-rock once again as a formidable commercial force rather than just a fringe interest. Full Review. 7y.

https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/fleet-foxes-helplessness-blues/
Helplessness Blues succeeds because Fleet Foxes find a way to consistently balance the added level of nuance with their natural inclinations toward epic songcraft. The ruminative title track, for example, begins unassuming enough and then suddenly unfolds, cascading around Pecknold's signature line: "If I had an orchard/I'd work 'til I'm sore."

https://www.obscuresound.com/2011/04/fleet-foxes-helplessness-blues-2011/
"The Shrine / An Argument" takes prize as the longest and most sweeping track on Helplessness Blues. Unlike most of Fleet Foxes' material, it highlights a slightly more unrestrained Robin Pecknold who allows his vocal range to be expressive beyond sultry folk whisperings. This song takes a turn for the better as it switches gears from

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/fleet-foxes/helplessness-blues/
Favorites: Montezuma, Sim Sala Bim, Helplessness Blues, Lorelai, The Shrine / An Argument It'd be pretty pointless at this point to reiterate the strong influences that Fleet Foxes have had latched on to them some incalculable number times, even if just counting the RYM community - Hell, even my own reviews of the band's material.

https://consequence.net/2011/05/album-review-fleet-foxes-helplessness-blues/
Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold's OG alter-ego twitter account @gangstafleetfox will be pleased to hear it when we say: Fleet Foxes are about to make it rain. Make no mistake, when the joyous "Best of 2011" season rolls around, this is one album that will be aggressively vying for a place near the top.

https://www.noripcord.com/reviews/music/fleet-foxes/helplessness-blues
Helplessness Blues ends with Grown Ocean, a high-spirited acoustic rouse marked by pummeling tympani and even a whimsical flute that emerges just in time to announce its grand finale. In it, Pecknold recurs to the theme of salvation amidst a pastoral fantasia; when the music stops, he sings in a cappella: wide-eyed walker, don't betray me/I

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a9833/fleet-foxes-helplessness-blues-review-5675350/
A Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues review by way of track-by-track impressions of the new Fleet Foxes album. Track-by-track impressions of the sophomore effort from a band that may or may not be

https://highway81revisited.com/album-review-fleet-foxes-helplessness-blues/
By Michael Lello You wouldn't be wrong to classify Fleet Foxes as part of the current neo-folk movement, but the band's second full-length album "Helplessness Blues" takes another step toward removing the "neo" qualifier. This is authentic folk music, not an update on already-established techniques and sounds; it's just that these particular purveyors are generations

https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/43443/Fleet-Foxes-Helplessness-Blues/
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues review: ... We were given a glimpse into the fulcrum of the new Fleet Foxes album when we heard the title track, an apology of selfless, dedicated workmanship: 'after some thinking/ I'd say I'd rather be/ a functioning cog in some great machinery / serving something beyond me'.

https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-fleet-foxes-12024-315221
Album Review: Fleet Foxes - 'Helplessness Blues'. More soggy nonnying for the emotionally stunted. By Tim Chester. 27th April 2011. It was Conor Kiley of glam-metal reprobates Holy Ghost

https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/43484/Fleet-Foxes-Helplessness-Blues/
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues review: ...simply a blip on their further rise as an influential band in the future of folk... So long as they capture their genuine flair back from whatever media source pressured them into handing it over in exchange for some flat radio-friendly riffs.

https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/43150/Fleet-Foxes-Helplessness-Blues/
The first thing you notice about Helplessness Blues is how much fuller it sounds than Fleet Foxes' acclaimed debut - the instrumentation is beefier, the production is significantly warmer, and the melodies are more forthright. The second thing that stands out is the sadness that permeates every aspect of the album, from the title to the existentially confused words behind these songs.

https://www.metacritic.com/music/helplessness-blues
Helplessness Blues is an album that will leave you either sad, bittersweet, hopeful, or some weird mix of those. It goes through feelings of not living up to expectations and losing who you once were (Montezuma), feelings of hopelessness and helplessness and realizing that your outlook of life growing up was completely wrong (Helplessness Blues

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helplessness_Blues
Helplessness Blues is the second studio album by American band Fleet Foxes, released on May 3, 2011, by Sub Pop and Bella Union.The album received universal acclaim from critics, going on to be nominated for Best Folk Album at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards.The release peaked at number 4 on the Billboard 200, the band's highest position on the chart to date.

https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/84705/Fleet-Foxes-Helplessness-Blues/
Release Date: 2011 | Tracklist. Listening diary 15th April, 2022: Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (chamber folk, 2011) I recall when I first got into this album, it was in a rush as I was determined to see them live. A determination led far more by the necessity to be at the concert for personal dramatic reasons (long story) than any serious

https://www.allmusic.com/album/helplessness-blues-mw0002110425
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https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/43218/Fleet-Foxes-Helplessness-Blues/
And indeed, as folk revivalists, Fleet Foxes are nothing but authentic. Helplessness Blues continues this trend. Pecknold's lyrics make no attempt to modernize; "Bedouin Dress" makes a Yeats reference when he sings "One day at Innisfree/One day that's mine there." Yeats, an early 20th century Irish poet, wrote a poem called "The Lake Isle of

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/fleet-foxes/2024/ulster-performing-arts-centre-kingston-ny-43a8431f.html
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https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/43840/Fleet-Foxes-Helplessness-Blues/
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues review: A rousing, earthy release, Helplessness Blues improves on a first album which didn't even seem to need such a treatment. There are a few misfires, but on their sophomore album the Fleet Foxes really are growing into a force to be reckoned with. ... On the opening track of the Fleet Foxes' sophomore album

https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/43767/Fleet-Foxes-Helplessness-Blues/
The song softly ends acapella, similarly to "Oliver James" (the closing track on Fleet Foxes). The sacredness of simplicity seems to be the reoccurring theme throughout the album. It deals with tackling life from a post-coming-of-age perspective. Fleet Foxes have perfected translating simple expressions into grandiose folk epics.