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Fleet FoxesHelplessness Blues85 Based on 14 reviews 2011 Ranking: #15 / 492
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It’s a richer, more diverse sound than their self-titled LP or the Sun Giant EP.
Helplnessness Blues is not a reinvention, but rather a refinement.
Fleet Foxes suck. They’re the soy-latte house band of Starbucks.
The record showcases the band's expanded range and successful risk-taking, while retaining what so many people fell in love with about the group in the first place.
Helplessness Blues is a cosmic, bombastic record, undaunted and ready to expose itself on every corner with a whole lot of heart.
Fleet Foxes have become a band who will not stop pushing, who will challenge themselves to avoid stagnancy, who will work with both their instruments and their minds.
This is a dynamic record that improves on the band’s already impressive accomplishments in every way.
It’s an album that makes you sad that it’s not longer; sad that it can’t just go on forever.
| A.V. Club: | 100 | |
| Beats Per Minute: | 94 | |
| Consequence of Sound: | 90 | |
| musicOMH: | 90 | |
| No Ripcord: | 90 | |
| Paste: | 90 | |
| Spin: | 90 | |
| Pitchfork: | 88 | |
| All Music: | 80 | |
| Drowned in Sound: | 80 | |
| PopMatters: | 80 | |
| Coke Machine Glow: | 70 | ![]() |
| Tiny Mix Tapes: | 60 | |
| NME: | 40 |
| # 18 - | Amazon |
| # 21 - | American Songwriter |
| # 18 - | BBC |
| # 13 - | Bigger Than The Sound |
| # 13 - | Clash |
| # 14 - | Consequence of Sound |
| # 3 - | FILTER |
| # 3 - | MOJO |
| # 4 - | No Ripcord |
| # 28 - | Obscure Sound |
| # 3 - | One Thirty BPM |
| # 2 - | Paste |
| # 18 - | Pazz and Jop |
| # 15 - | Pitchfork |
| # 1 - | PopMatters |
| # 20 - | Prefix |
| # 3 - | Pretty Much Amazing |
| # 4 - | Rolling Stone |
| # 33 - | SPIN |
| # 31 - | Stereogum |
| # 27 - | The Fly |
| # 20 - | The Guardian |
| # 12 - | Uncut |
| # 4 - | Under the Radar |