Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues – review

(Bella Union)As is tradition, the blues kick in at first light. "I woke up one morning," begins Robin Pecknold, four tracks into Fleet Foxes's second album, Helplessness Blues. But instead of finding his baby gone, as bluesmen tend to, on "Battery Kinzie" Pecknold finds "All my fingers rotten/ I woke up a dying man without a chance."Anyone who came away from Fleet Foxes's half-million-selling self-titled debut album (and its companion EP, Sun Giant) with the thrill of elegiac succour should be w...

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