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I owe you an apology.

Midlake/Fleet Foxes=bland band name...all the fuckin' same to me.

Thrice

Everytime I try to listen to them I feel like there is something missing. I just cant do it.

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Mister Sad Soul

I have to agree in a way with you....its almost like they are right there and so...damn....close...al...m..oos..damn...

Possibly frustrating at some points, but I enjoy the CD now that I have beaten it to death like I do to many of my albums... honestly I think the more I listened to it the more I enjoyed it, notice more and more details in every song.

I saw them live before I even anything by them and was impressed by their live show, although they really could use some help on the stage in between songs...too much mumbling into the microphones about things I either didn't care about, or couldn't actually hear.

zkauf1

Their new album ranks up there with new albums by Department of Eagles and Apollo Sunshine. 2008 is like the year for beautiful experimental indie psych-rock

Alfred

I love their debut. I'll have to look into that EP.

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Rainard Jalen

This album was appallingly bad, and radically boring. I've never found an overhyped record this boring in all my life. It sits up there with Vampire Weekend as the most underservedly hyped album of 2008, and even Vampire Weekend was a lot less boring than this piece of garden variety horse excrement.

henry

i agree

simplephysics

I completely agree with you, I can't stand to hear the Vampire Weekend s/t one more time. It's a polished turd.

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Alfred

From what I've heard of Vampire Weekend they're a ripoff of just about every other indie rock band out there.

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Rainard Jalen

I don't like VW at all anymore, but I don't think it's true that they are a mere ripoff of all other indie rock bands. They certainly have their own thing going on, what with the Afropop meets indie pop hybrid. They do it in a way that makes it their own - they have their own sound...

...trouble is, it just doesn't sound very good...




Vampire Weekend has a lot of dull, uninspired songs on it which, for their sheer degree unremarkability, I would consider filler. The album's really only good for the first three songs and then maybe one or two others. By the end, you're just bored to death. As for Fleet Foxes, then again, it's just insanely boring and dull. The vocals are irritating, the harmonies are overlayered to the point of sounding mechanical and manufactured, and it suffers from that awful kind of mundane monotony where, for the most part, there's very little to distinguish one song from the next. The obvious overproduction that has gone into it has rendered any good folk elements that their raw music may have as entirely useless and undetectable. It's a record without any real heart or soul, and the only reason it's got so far is due to the hype machine having been working in overdrive to promote it.