Well tracks 1 to 4 are the same as the Sun Giant EP (apart from Mykonos) and Isles is a b-side.

 

Finally, after much deliberation, Uncut is proud to announce that Fleet Foxes have scooped our first ever Uncut Music Award!

 

The Seattle quintet's eponymous debut album beat off competition from a shortlist which included Mercury Music Prize winners Elbow and Radiohead, as well as your, the readers, choice of Drive-By Truckers for the "most rewarding and inspiring album" of the past 12 months.

 

Fleet Foxes were unanimously hailed by a panel of industry judges which included broadcaster Mark Radcliffe and ex EMI chief executive Tony Wadsworth, at a judging session in November to choose the overall winner from eight shortlisted albums.

 

The band's singer Robin Pecknold told Uncut: “It’s awesome. It’s crazy, I never expected to be in contention for this kind of thing. It makes us want to step up our game. I see it as you throwing down the gauntlet – now we have to live up to it. Obviously prizes are not something you should think about or hope for when you’re making music. I hope our next album isn’t like an awards grab, like the equivalent of a Clint Eastwood movie, y’know, Oscar bait. If we set out to try and win album of the year, we’ll end up sounding like Coldplay or something.”

 

Mark Radcliffe said of the Fleet Foxes album: “I think it’s an extraordinary piece of work, and a worthy first winner of the prize. It’s a beautiful vocal creation, a record that seems to have echoes of all kinds of indigenous American music, but also African music and even medieval strains. All the songs on the album are absolutely brilliant, and it just has a magical, ethereal quality.”

 

Over the next fortnight Uncut will be posting blow-by-blow transcripts of the 'discussions' which took place behind closed doors at the judging session this month. Find out what's really questioned when albums go up for a prize. We will be posting what was said about each of the shortlisted albums at the Uncut Music Award blog here, starting today (November 12).

 

The full shortlist, in alphabetical order, was:

 

1. BON IVER – For Emma, Forever Ago (4AD)

2. DRIVE BY TRUCKERS – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (New West)

3. ELBOW – The Seldom-Seen Kid (Fiction)

4. THE FELICE BROTHERS - The Felice Brothers (Loose)

5. FLEET FOXES – Fleet Foxes (Bella Union)

6. THE RACONTEURS – Consolers Of The Lonely (XL)

7. RADIOHEAD - In Rainbows (XL)

8. VAMPIRE WEEKEND – Vampire Weekend (XL)

 

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Congrats Fleet Foxes!

Great isn't it :D

I have some more good news for you Brigs, from a couple end-of-year best-off years from magazines

 

Number 2 in the Q magazine list (quite surprising seeing as they ignored it when it came out)

Number 1 in the MOJO magazine list (also quite surprising) :D

 

Watty, member 1 of the coldplaying foxes fellowship (the CFF)

So I saw them!

The whole festival is going to be broadcast on German TV, too!

And what did you think Mark?

The whole event was excellent from start to finish, plus I met Travis afterwards and got photographed with Fran.

excellent :D

And some idiot in the crowd heckled the Fleets because he was expecting some hard rock or something, and everyone booed him!!

I told them to ignore him, as the rest of us appreciated their performance!!

And some idiot in the crowd heckled the Fleets because he was expecting some hard rock or something, and everyone booed him!!

I told them to ignore him, as the rest of us appreciated their performance!!

 

You get idiots like that :(

my swedish friend Klara and her sister made a fantastic cover of Tiger Mountain Peasant Song by Fleet Foxes. they have a band called First Aid Kit. they made a video and released it on youtube. now even Fleet Foxes themself has watched it. you should check it out:

 

 

Thats cool that you know them. I listened to this version a few months ago and was impressed. I have it saved as one of my fav. tracks on hype music.

Bump

They were #1 on Pitchfork's album countdown!

deservedly so!! i can't remember the last time i've listened to an album this time many time in one week and loved it every time. and this is 3 months after i first started listening!!

They were #1 on Pitchfork's album countdown!

 

And also number 1 in the poll of polls between NME, Q, Uncut & Mojo, as listed on the wonderful word magazine blog

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/2008-album-of-year-the-poll-polls

And also top rock album for exclaim.ca...a great Canadian indie magazine I read regularly.

Which is good :D

 

And in the top 3 albums of the year from The Fly

Second place from OOR, biggest music magazine in the Netherlands.

 

I love White Winter Hymnal, and the music video is SO cute :nice:

Metacritic has compiled top album lists from all the major magazines, websites and critics from around the world and Fleet Foxes have come out on top by being 1st in 6 lists and being in the top 10 of another 15.

nice.

Metacritic has compiled top album lists from all the major magazines, websites and critics from around the world and Fleet Foxes have come out on top by being 1st in 6 lists and being in the top 10 of another 15.

 

But not the HMV "best of the best" list, which came out today listing no sources, no scoring system, nothing. But it was won by Elbow which was good

They're deserving every 'award' they're getting. I haven't heard anything as unique and bewildering, then again, I havent heard much.

 

They're in Aus right now and we're missing them :(

The big major problem now facing the band is how to do a follow-up to their first album.

Mmmmhmmm. I have a feeling that these guys will be able to pull of a good sophomore album. Yes it will be a challenge, and expectations will be higher than ever....but they seem to be creative enough.