(2021) Fleet Foxes - A Very Lonely Solstice  


Review:
Last year, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold played a livestream at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn that he called A Very Lonely Solstice. Fleet Foxes are now releasing the performance as a digital album on December 10. The original recording was broadcasted as a livestream event during the winter solstice of 2020, just days after New York declared a state of emergency and tightened restrictions following increasing cases of COVID-19. A large percentage of the performance is focused solely on Pecknold — who described the show as “me by myself on the longest night of the year, honoring the loneliness of 2020 with a nylon string and some songs new and old” — performing acoustic renditions of songs spanning the Fleet Foxes catalog. Running through the set are stripped-back arrangements of “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song,” off Fleet Foxes’ 2008 self-titled debut, “Blue Spotted Tail,” off their second album Helplessness Blues in 2011, and the 2017 single “If You Need To, Keep Time On Me.” The setlist also includes a rearrangement of “Silver Dagger,” of a 2018 compilation, First Collections 2008-2009, in addition to “Wading in Waist-High Water” and “Can I Believe You,” off the band’s fourth album Shore (2020) with Resistance Revival Chorus joining Pecknold for the performance.





Track Listing:
1. Wading In Waist-High Water (Solstice Version) (2:10)
2. Sunblind (Solstice Version) (4:25)
3. In the Morning (Solstice Version) (2:12)
4. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (Solstice Version) (3:54)
5. Maestranza (Solstice Version) (2:55)
6. Helplessness Blues (Solstice Version) (5:03)
7. Silver Dagger (Solstice Version) (3:42)
8. Featherweight (Solstice Version) (3:48 )
9. A Long Way Past the Past (Solstice Version) (3:44)
10. Blue Spotted Tail (Solstice Version) (3:09)
11. If You Need to, Keep Time on Me (Solstice Version) (2:56)
12. I'm Not My Season (Solstice Version) (3:10)
13. Can I Believe You (Solstice Version) (4:00)


Media Report:
Genre: indie-folk
Country: USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits