FLEET FOXES - HELPLESSNESS BLUES (2LP) ELECTRO Beggars Arkive will reissue the

Beggars Arkive will reissue the album

Their melancholy approach to music drew high praise from fans and critics on 2007's album "Cease to Begin

describing it as a cathartic experience to recover from the death of his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain

This was followed by a two-week period of mixing at Conway Recording Studios in North Hollywood

With Laura Lee's voice now clear and centered amid a glossolalia of musical influence and 14 languages

FLEET FOXES - HELPLESSNESS BLUES (2LP) ELECTRO Beggars Arkive will reissue theLike very nearly every worthwhile thing, making this album was not easy; it was a difficult second album to make. Drawing inspiration from folk rock from about 1965 to 1973, and Van Morrison's ASTRAL WEEKS in particular, HELPLESSNESS BLUES sees Fleet Foxes heighten and extend themselves, adding instrumentation (clarinet, the music box, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, Tibetan singing bowls, vibraphone, etc., along with more traditional band