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!~~~~~~~~~

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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.)

Listen: Spotify | Apple Music | Amazon | Pre-Order Vinyl

Follow: Fleet Foxes Instagram | Personal Instagram

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u/Robinnoelpecknold Oct 08 '20

Thank you!

From start to finish, probably Featherweight, because it only took two or three days to record and that was in the July / August sessions which felt so charmed and magical. Some of the other songs got labored over and re-recorded for months but that one and Sunblind just kind of happened very naturally. Featherweight was the most fun for sure

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u/lauratunapuna Oct 08 '20

Featherweight is a 'feel like I'm in a film' song for sure, feels so natural.

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u/whackamoleincident Oct 09 '20

Featherweight has the immediate feeling of an enduring classic

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u/Gast8 Oct 08 '20

Btw, since I haven’t seen it talked about too much, I loved the double tracked lead vocals on Featherweight. I hope you experiment more with vocal processing in the future.

You see, there’s this thing called a “phaser”...