Fleet Foxes

About Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes is a five-piece Seattle based band signed to the labels Sub Pop and Bella Union. The quintet describe their music as "baroque harmonic pop jams." They have played at major venues such as the Bumbershoot Music Festival in Seattle, Washington, South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, Sasquatch! Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre in May 2008, and Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, Illinois in July 2008.

Fleet Foxes began their spring tour with fellow Northwest band Blitzen Trapper on February 28, 2008. Their debut full length album Fleet Foxes was released on June 3, 2008. It was given 4 stars by Rolling Stone, and compared to the likes of the Beach Boys, Band of Horses, Animal Collective, and Crosby, Stills & Nash and received a 9.0 out of 10 in a review by Pitchfork. On June 24, 2008, Fleet Foxes went to #1 on the CMJ Radio 200 Chart. In 2008, Boston newspaper The Phoenix named them the Best New Band from Washington.