Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
CRITIC SCORE
86
Based on 16 reviews
2011 Ranking: #7 / 512
USER SCORE
87
Based on
35 ratings


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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
A.V. CLUB
94
BEATS PER MINUTE

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.

90
MUSICOMH

Helplnessness Blues is not a reinvention, but rather a refinement.

90
CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND

It’s an album that makes you sad that it’s not longer; sad that it can’t just go on forever.

90
NO RIPCORD

Helplessness Blues is a cosmic, bombastic record, undaunted and ready to expose itself on every corner with a whole lot of heart.

88
PITCHFORK

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.

80
DROWNED IN SOUND

It’s a richer, more diverse sound than their self-titled LP or the Sun Giant EP.

80
POPMATTERS

This is a dynamic record that improves on the band’s already impressive accomplishments in every way.

80
UNDER THE RADAR
70
COKE MACHINE GLOW
60
TINY MIX TAPES
40
NME

Fleet Foxes suck. They’re the soy-latte house band of Starbucks.

USER REVIEWS

95

Blown away buy this album, even more impressed with they're show.

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DETAILS

RELEASED: May 3, 2011
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: Sub Pop
GENRE: Indie Folk

END OF YEAR LISTS
# 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
TRACK LIST
  1. Montezuma 
  2. Bedouin Dress 
  3. Sim Sala Bim 
  4. Battery Kinzie 
  5. The Plains/Bitter Dancer 
  6. Helplessness Blues 
  7. The Cascades 
  8. Lorelai 
  9. Someone You'd Admire 
  10. The Shrine/An Argument 
  11. Blue Spotted Tail 
  12. Grown Ocean