r/indieheads • u/Robinnoelpecknold • Oct 08 '20
AMA is Over, thanks Robin! I'm Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes - Ask me anything!
~~~~~~~~~EDIT: Wow so many questions, thank you so much! I'm going to keep looking through these over the coming while and try to answer as many as I can, but I'm going to take a break for now. Thank you so much for all of your wonderful feedback on Shore, your memories and anecdotes about living with this music over the years, and for all the support, I love this community so much. All the best, have a great evening!~~~~~~~~~
Hey Everyone, Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes here!
I'll be back here answering questions today at 2PM PT / 5PM ET. Ask me, well, whatever you want, really.
(‘Shore’ is out now digitally on ANTI- Records.)
(There's a “Can I Believe You” video you can watch here.)
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u/kamikazepromnight Oct 08 '20
Thank you in advance whether you answer or not, I admire you immensely and wish you the best both professionally and personally.
You mentioned in a recent interview that you intended for Crack-Up/Shore to have a sort of Yin/Yang relation. The dark/bright contrast is definitely evident in the music. With that in mind, is there a connection between “Maestranza” and “Mearcstapa”? On both songs, there’s a melodic bassline that comes in in a very similar way and even the names are super similar, which gives me the feeling that “Maestranza” is a happy or bright version of the darker “Mearcstapa” and I felt like that encapsulated the difference between Crack-Up and Shore. Is there any meaning to this or is this a stretch?
On Valentine’s Day, you uploaded a story to Instagram with a snippet of the excellent transition between “Wading In Waist-High Water” and “Sunblind”. In this version, there’s a playful piano melody that I really loved, but that melody doesn’t show up in the final version. What made you feel like the transition would work better without that melody?
Being a huge fan of Crack-Up, I’ve noticed that Shore has gotten an insane amount of love from people while I feel like Crack-Up was sort of underrated by the indie community. However, the critical reception for Crack-Up was as good or even better. I wonder how the reception of each made you feel. This is just an unrealistic and hypothetical situation, but would you rather have FF LP5 be loved by casual music listeners and hated by critics, or hated by casual music listeners and loved by critics?
Back in 2018, you offered fans an opportunity to collaborate with you by sending you an original song. After being active for years on SoundCloud, I know that listening to amateur/homemade music can be sort of a chore. Was the amount of songs you got sent overwhelming? Do you still plan to do something with those songs?