Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (2xLP, Album, Gat) Mint (M) / Near Mint (NM or M-)

Summary: Vinyl, LP2, Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes, 2011, US

Media Condition:  Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Country:    US  
Released:  03 May 2011
Genre:       Rock, Folk World & Country
Style:         Indie Rock, Folk

Comments:
New, Sealed.
 

Notes:

℗ & © 2011 Sub Pop Records

Studios:
Reciprocal Recording - Seattle, WA - January to December 2010
Dreamland Studios - West Hurley, NY - Twelve days in April 2010
Bear Creek Studios - Woodinville, WA - Ten days in July 2010
Avast Recording - Seattle, WA - Four weeks mixing and recording, Fall 2010
Fort Warden Water Cistern - Port Townsend, WA - Loud Noises

This album is dedicated to Andy Kotowicz. XO

Includes Oversized Two Sided Poster & Free MP3 Download Card

Preorder includes two stickers (1 generic Sub Pop logo, 1 round & red Fleet Foxes sticker) and one foldout poster.

All songs... Foxes Fellowship [ASCAP Administered by Chrysalis in the U.K.

A1. Montezuma 3:36
A2. Bedouin Dress 4:29
A3. Sim Sala Bim 3:14
B1. Battery Kinzie 2:49
B2. The Plains / Bitter Dancer 5:53
B3. Helplessness Blues 5:03
C1. The Cascades 2:07
C2. Lorelai 4:24
C3. Someone You'd Admire 2:29
D1. The Shrine / An Argument 8:07
D2. Blue Spotted Tail 3:05
D3. Grown Ocean 4:35

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Barcode 0 98787 08881 6
Rights Society ASCAP
Matrix / Runout SP 888-A 19721.1(3)... RJ STERLING
Matrix / Runout SP 888-B 19721.2(3)... RJ STERLING
Matrix / Runout SP 888-C 19721.3(3)... RJ STERLING
Matrix / Runout SP 888-D 19721.4(3)... RJ STERLING

Recorded At Reciprocal Recording
Recorded At Avast! Recording Co.
Recorded At Bear Creek Studios
Recorded At Dreamland Recording Studios
Recorded At Fort Warden Water Cistern
Copyright (c) Foxes Fellowship
Phonographic Copyright (p) Sub Pop Records
Copyright (c) Sub Pop Records
Mixed At Avast! Recording Co.
Mastered At Sterling Sound
Mastered At Record Technology Incorporated
Lacquer Cut At Record Technology Incorporated
Published By Foxes Fellowship

Data provided by Discogs

SP 888

Like 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 instrumentation), with a focus on clear, direct lyrics, and an emphasis on group vocal harmonies. We have it on good authority that the album is called HELPLESSNESS BLUES for at least a couple of reasons. One, it's kind of a funny title. Secondly, one of the prevailing themes of the album is the struggle between who you are and who you want to be or who you want to end up, and how sometimes you are the only thing getting in the way of that. Having heard HELPLESSNESS BLUES, we mean to get out of it's way.