Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (M/NM) – 2xLP, US 2011

Helplessness Blues is an LP by Fleet Foxes from 2011 released on the Sub Pop label.

About this album

Helplessness Blues is Fleet Foxes at their most ambitious and self-questioning, expanding the chamber-folk precision of their debut into a fuller, more searching record. Released in 2011, the album was produced by Skyler Skjelset and the band, and led by Robin Pecknold’s reflective writing on identity, work and purpose. Its rich harmonies, pastoral imagery and carefully layered arrangements give songs like the title track and Montezuma lasting emotional weight. Widely praised on release, it was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize and confirmed Fleet Foxes as one of the defining indie-folk groups of their era.