Shore
A radiant, sun-dappled collection of chamber folk. Richly layered harmonies and buoyant rhythms celebrate life, memory, and resilience in the face of uncertainty.
A radiant, sun-dappled collection of chamber folk. Richly layered harmonies and buoyant rhythms celebrate life, memory, and resilience in the face of uncertainty.
Bright consolidation
Warm brass and bright acoustic guitars cut through the morning chill like late-September sunlight. These fifteen songs wrap you in layered, golden harmonies, offering a quiet, resilient shelter from a turbulent world.
Injecting a radiant sense of relief into the songwriting, a hopeful outlook emerges as a defining signature that steers these songs away from the knotty anxieties of past releases.
Critics widely embraced the album as a warm and comforting sanctuary, praising its adventurous yet gentle folk-rock arrangements and vivid seasonal themes. Reviewers broadly admired the record's bright, resilient spirit, finding a deep sense of gratitude and solace in its reflections on renewal.
“Surprise fourth album combines deeply pleasant vibes with high-flying studio ambition, for an LP about letting go and being thankful for what we’ve got”Read review
“On Shore, Fleet Foxes consist mostly of founding member Robin Pecknold. Recording with a band in the age of COVID-19 can be difficult. It was just time to make this record this way”
“On his fourth album, singer-songwriter Robin Pecknold refines and hones Fleet Foxes’ crisp folk-rock sound, crafting another musically adventurous album that is warm and newly full of grace”Read review
“Though it is by no means a flawless album, it is exactly the kind of thing you should be using to set your mind at ease. Fleet Foxes have always been inherently hopeful and thankfully they’ve not lost sight of that, roll on 2021”Read review
“Shore is full of richly embroidered gratitude; the play of the seasons and the influence of the elements is ever-present”Read review
“Robin Pecknold leads the Seattle band in a balmy and bright look at life in the face of death”Read review
“Some of Shore’s strongest moments are its most evidently pop inspired ones”Read review
“A wonderful album to lead us into the concluding chapters of a heartbreaking year”Read review
“Though Fleet Foxes certainly have no control over their mythology, Shore finds Pecknold letting the worries wash off of him”Read review
“As natural and inviting as the curling of the leaves, ‘Shore’ is Fleet Foxes at their best. A voice of comfort for an atmomised generation, this is less album, and more treasure trove”Read review
“The folk-rock band’s fourth LP possesses a hopeful approachability”Read review
“As a collection, Shore emits a sense of coming through something and arriving anew with the welcome bruises that foster greater understanding and compassion”Read review
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