Sometimes you catch a song and you don’t know that you’ve heard it before but it just sounds so familiar… and I don’t mean that it is a pastiche of something else or that is derivative…but maybe it is something you’ve heard without properly listening to it and now there is that click or recognition.
I was listening the fabulous Radio Paradise and a number came up and I was almost humming along to it and yet I had never consciously heard it before. It was the Fleet Foxes originally from Seattle – which is the only place in the USA I have ever been to… but that’s another story… The band members met at school and began to get recognition from about 2007. Their first album the eponymous Fleet Foxes was initially more popular in Europe; their second album was Helplessness Blues.
Here is ‘White Winter Hymnal’ from their first album:
Lois Elsden 