Why Fleet Foxes will never be as big as America

Their debut album might be a modern classic, but Fleet Foxes need to write radio-friendly anthems if they are to match the success of the 1970s folk rockersCan people be blinded by hype into accepting absolute garbage into the rock'n'roll canon? I refer to a dispute I had recently over the meteoric rise of Fleet Foxes. A friend of mine believed that to truly judge whether an album is a "classic" you have to wait at least a year for the hype to clear. For her, Fleet Foxes have failed the test ...

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