Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues

Despite a few silly affectations, Fleet Foxes' second album is disarmingly beautiful, says Alexis PetridisThe area in which rock music meets poetry is seldom a happy place, so it's with a mild sense of panic, five minutes into Helplessness Blues, that the listener realises they're in the presence of a song loosely based on the work of WB Yeats. In fairness, you can see why his poetry might appeal to the Seattle sextet. It's as thick with references to folk tales as their music is with allusions ...

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