Fleet Foxes — A Very Lonely Solstice
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Robin Pecknold brings light to the bleakest of winters with A Very Lonely Solstice, a 13-track collection recorded at Brooklyn, NY’s St. Ann & The Holy Trinity Church. The album captures a poignant moment in time: The recording was originally broadcast as a live-stream event on the winter solstice of 2020, just days after New York declared a state of emergency tightening restrictions again in response to COVID-19. Pecknold describes the set 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.”
Much of A Very Lonely Solstice showcases a solo focus on Pecknold, who offers up acoustic arrangements of fan-favorite songs spanning the Foxes’ four studio albums. Resistance Revival Chorus joins Pecknold on Shore tracks “Wading In Waist-High Water” and “Can I Believe You.” Also featured: A cover of Nina Simone’s “In The Morning” and a rearrangement of the traditional “Silver Dagger.”
Released: 7/1/22
Label: Anti
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- Wading In Waist-High Water (Solstice Version)
- Sunblind (Solstice Version)
- In The Morning (Solstice Version)
- Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (Solstice Version)
- Maestranza (Solstice Version)
- Helplessness Blues (Solstice Version)
- Silver Dagger (Solstice Version)
- Featherweight (Solstice Version)
- A Long Way Past The Past (Solstice Version)
- Blue Spotted Tail (Solstice Version)
- If You Need To, Keep Time On Me (Solstice Version)
- I’m Not My Season (Solstice Version)
- Can I Believe You (Solstice Version)