This week, Fleet Foxes announce a run of headlining tour dates in support of their critically acclaimed 2020 release Shore, which will make a stop at Santa Barbara Bowl on Saturday, July 9.
The newly announced shows will mark the first time the full band will perform songs from its critically acclaimed fourth studio album Shore, released on Anti- in 2020 and currently nominated for the 64th GRAMMY Awards in the category of Best Alternative Music Album. This is the second nomination for the band, whose sophomore release Helplessness Blues was nominated for Best Folk Album in 2012.
Praised by critics upon release, Shore topped year-end lists securing spots in the top 5 in Uncut, 6Music, Mojo, Uproxx, and placing on numerous lists including The New Yorker, NPR, Pitchfork, USA Today, Stereogum, Rolling Stone, and more stateside.
This will mark the band’s return to live shows since 2018 following the end of its world tour in support of the 2017 album Crack-Up. The live show will feature Robin Pecknold joined by Skyler Skjelset (multi-instrumentalist, vocals), Casey Wescott (multi-instrumentalist, vocals), Christian Wargo (multi-instrumentalist, vocals), and Morgan Henderson (multi-instrumentalist).
Last December saw the digital release of A Very Lonely Solstice, a 13-track career spanning collection recorded in December 2020, at Brooklyn, NY’s St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, with limited edition colored vinyl & CD slated to ship in Spring of this year. On November 22, 2022, Fleet Foxes will release Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes, the book is available for pre-order here.
ACCLAIM FOR SHORE:
"Shore looks to the world and realizes there is already enough, as if staring into a darkness and responding with beauty, acceptance, and light." - PITCHFORK (BEST NEW MUSIC)
"A gorgeous folk-rock song cycle about life, death, and art, full of deep mourning and glimmers of relief on the other side. Track for track, Shore is the most immediately rewarding Fleet Foxes record since their brilliant 2008 debut." - ROLLING STONE (⅘ STARS)
"The gorgeous record found tonal balance amid the chaos of recent months, when the project suddenly seemed inconsequential to its creators and, therefore, more like a refuge. Though still primarily the creation of the band’s front man, Robin Pecknold, “Shore” is a collective effort that includes many contributors, and its glistening arrangements are reflective of the unburdening that collaboration fosters." - THE NEW YORKER
"The album is uniformly gorgeous, sometimes overwhelmingly so when taken in all at once...Every now and then there’s a moment of brightness, an actual good thing, that alleviates the darkness of the wretched year that is 2020. This is one of those good things." - STEREOGUM
"Fleet Foxes made the perfect album for this moment." - VULTURE
"Filled with epic, sweeping songs." - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"These 15 tracks are the work of an artist taking in everything dark and corrupt about this year, and choosing to craft an artifact of hope." - UPROXX
"There are lush soundscapes, fluttery brass cacophonies and subdividing rhythms...there is an acknowledgment of the past, but in a way that throws into sharp relief the potential that lies ahead and the legacy that is carried into the future" - ASSOCIATED PRESS
"Lucid, warm, and with no shortage of heart, Shore is a wonderful album to lead us into the concluding chapters of what has been a heartbreaker of a year." - CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND
"Shore is their most collaborative, most joyous album, and also one that transcends what Pecknold called the agrarian fantasies of their early days for an earnest plea to hear the call of the wild." - THE RINGER
"Robin remains an extremely gifted songwriter, and these songs find him weaving in deceptively simple arrangements and some of the most instantly-satisfying melodies he's written yet." - BROOKLYN VEGAN
"Both vibrant and vital." - UNDER THE RADAR
"Their most gorgeous full-length yet." - NOISEY
"An absolute tour de force of rich melodies, heavenly hooks, luxurious production and songs packed to the brim with key/tempo/mood shifts that keep you constantly on your toes, it’s one of the most formidable albums we’ve heard this year, full stop." - GUITAR WORLD
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