entire show, Hard-to-find

Bon (h)iver? Bon été!

Craig McAllister

Today’s post has the feel of that dodgy Freeview Channel, ‘Dave‘, the channel that shows endless repeats of ‘Have I Got News For You’, ‘QI’, ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ etc – all great stuff, none of which was actually produced by ‘Dave‘ itself. Read on…

Many of you I’m sure will be familiar with the Bon Iver album, ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’. All critics and music fans alike seem to love it. It’s been called modern folk, it’s been called folktronic, but to me it’s just plain old folk music. It’s not a million miles away from King Creosote and the Fence Collective group of musicians from Fife in Scotland, but for whatever reason Bon Iver will find himself at the top of most ‘Best of the Year lists, which is something that has so far eluded King Creosote.

Bon Iver prepares to throw another lucky 6

Many of you will also be familiar with the story of how Justin Vernon split up with his girlfriend, and went into the mountains to live off the land and write and record his album.  As Vernon himself said, “(For Emma, Forever Ago) was made on a pilgrimage to the woods of northwestern Wisconsin. With only guns, venison, firewood, a sears typewriter, and ancient musical equipment.” And it sounds like it. Grizzly Adams gone mellow. It’s a fantastic album and I’ve been playing it to death recently. As is the way with these things, once I get my teeth into an artist, I like to seek out every recording they’ve made. What follows below is a rag-bag assortment of radio sessions and TV appearances that have been converted to mp3 and are available for your enjoyment. 

Remember what I wrote in the opening paragraph? ‘Dave‘ TV? Some of these tracks have already been made available by one or two other blogs and others I’ve found through the wonders of the world wide web, so I take no real credit for bringing them to your ears. In the spirit of ‘Dave’ TV, these tracks may well be repeats – you’ve heard them already, but, hey, I’ll hear it again and might even download it this time. I think I’m the first to compile all these Bon Iver tracks in the one place. They’re a bit more rough and ready than the album versions, more stripped back and some how a bit more honest. Listen out for the squeaky door opening around 1.40 in the first track….

Flume  (Backstage Sessions, Nashville)

Creature Fear  (Backstage Session, Nashville)

Flume  (MOKB* studio 4th April)

Skinny Love  (SXSW festival)

Skinny Love (Live on Later with Jools Holland)

Flume (Live on Later With Jools Holland)

 Flume (Radio K In-Studio Sessions)

* MOKB is My Old Kentucky Blog. There’s a great interview with Bon Iver right there right now. I stole the above pictures from there too. Credit where it’s due and all that. And if these tracks aren’t enough for you, click on the taxi picture below to take you to Black Cab Sessions. You’ll find a great clip (Chapter 44) of Bon Iver playing ‘Creature Fear’  in the back of a London taxi. There’s some Fleet Foxes too. Take time to look around it, there’s some great stuff.

ps – I’m also looking for Bon Iver’s XFM Session from around April/May this year. Anyone got some files they can point me in the direction of?

Cover Versions, Hard-to-find

Skunk, Skank ‘n’ Short, Short Skirts? It must be Amy Winehouse!

Craig McAllister

It’s great to see her actually making news for all the right reasons this week. Well, she would be making the news if anyone had picked up on this, but I’m sure you get my point…Released under the radar to absolutely no fanfare whatsoever this week was a rather fetching 2 Tone-inspired 7″ ep by Amy Winehouse. The ‘Ska ep’ does exactly what it says on the tin. 4 tracks, 2 on each side, of Amy interpreting Ska classics that you may or may not have heard first from listening to The Specials. I love these versions, pointless as they ultimately are. And I love the sleeve, even if Amy hasn’t looked that voluptuous since 2006. Diana Dors in a wig…

A1. Monkey Man (Toots & The Maytals)
A2. Hey Little Rich Girl (THe Specials)
B1. You’re Wondering Now (Andy & Joe)
B2. Cupid (Sam Cooke)

The vinyl ep is currently going for funny money on eBay, but the above mp3’s are a good alternative for those of us suffering from the credit crunch. As a bonus track, here‘s the Arctic Monkeys version of Amy‘s ‘You Know I’m No Good’. It also does exactly what it says on the tin. Flat singing, wrong words, half-arsed delivery. Yep. You know it’s no good. But don’t take my word for it….

Hard-to-find, Studio master tapes

Gimme Shelter? Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!

Craig McAllister

Updated November 2010!

Hey! You! Aye, You! You’ve probably stumbled onto here via Google or whatever search engine or blog aggregator you use, hoping to find some Rolling Stones goodies. Just to let you know, the links for the music contained herein are looooooooong dead, but, BUT! you can now get them from here – https://philspector.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/rolling-stones-jigsaw-puzzle/ instead. Oh yeah!

Yes! It’s yet another of those fantastic studio master tapes that are all over the internet! It’s hard to top The Beatles Master Tapes. You might say they’ll never be topped. But this is a close second. Very close. This time it’s only THE STONES! THE ROLLING STONES! The master tapes of ‘Gimme Shelter’! Oh yes! No kidding! You may have these tracks already, cos they have appeared almost everywhere online, but I am aware that many visitors to this site come specifically to find studio gems such as these, so if you don’t have it, prepare to be dazzled. Daaaaaaaa-zzled!

A dazzled Mick. Camp? Moi?

Part 1. The History. ‘Gimme Shelter’ appeared on ‘Let It Bleed’ (the cake on the cover was made by Delia Smith, fact #1) and released in 1969. As you all know the song was the soundtrack to the end of the 60s. Rape, murder, it’s just a shot away, and all that. The Hells Angels murdered someone in the crowd at Altamont and the whole of the 60s went tits up and finished. Just like that. The decade that had started so brightly and full of hope ended (musically) on a sour note. But like I said, you all knew that.

Everyone waves bye bye to the end of the 60s

The song was written by Jagger and Richards. Jagger was getting lyrics together between takes of the film ‘Performance‘ that he was making at the time. Richards was playing about with the distinctive intro looking for a song to fit it. Et voila. Recording took place at Olympic Studios in London around February and March 1969 with Jimmy Miller producing. In one of those magical moments that occur now and again, Miller suggested getting a female vocalist to duet with Jagger. Cue Merry Clayton (incorrectly credited as Mary Clayton on the album, fact #2). Clayton’s high pitched, powerful vocal performance made the song. Her vocals are absolutely astounding.

Merry Mary Clayton

If you don’t believe me, here‘s the double tracked vocal-only performance. Just Jagger and Clayton battling it out. Listen out around the 3 minute mark as her voice cracks under the pressure and Jagger whoops a celebratory “Oh yeah!”. It. Is. Astonishing. Jagger later said of the finished track, “That’s a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It’s apocalypse.” And the vocal track certainly backs this up. And if you liked that part enough….

Keith. 27th November 1969. 15 days after I was born. Fact #3

Part 2. The Science Part. The files for these master tapes came originally (I think) from some enterprising kind soul with a Keith Richards fixation and a copy of the ‘Rock Band’ computer game. They are in ogg vorbis format, which means they cannot be played directly into Windows Media or iTunes or anything like that. But fear not. Get yourself Audacity. Install it and open it up. Open a new file from the menu, find the ‘Gimme Shelter.mogg’ file that you’ve just downloaded, double click it and by the wonders of technology, after about a minute you’ll find all 9 tracks open up simultaneously. Press ‘play’ and the whole track as you know it will start. Now let the fun begin. On the left hand side of your screen you will see the option to ‘mute‘ the track. Have fun muting the various tracks. Then click and drag across the track you want to isolate and save it as a wma file. You can make instrumental tracks for karaoke (why?) or you can make guitar-free tracks so that you can jam along. Whatcha waitin’ for?

YOU CAN BE KEITH RICHARDS FOR 4 MINUTES!!!

Me. Yesterday.

Footnote. There have been many, many covers of ‘Gimme Shelter’. Merry Clayton did one herself. I don’t have my copy handy at present or I would’ve included it in this post. Suffice to say, a future ‘Gimme Shelter Covers‘ post is almost guaranteed. From the sublime to the ridiculous, they’ve all done it. Inspiral Carpets, Hawkwind with Sam Fox, Patti Smith, Voice Of The Beehive…..prepare to be irked.

UPDATE Feb. 09

Links were deleted by internet police, but you can find the instrumental guitar tracks here.

Dylanish, Hard-to-find

The Cat In The Brand New Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat

Craig McAllister

Got the new issue of Mojo through the letterbox today and amongst the usual excellent mix of articles, I spotted a wee nod to ‘Dylan Hears A Who’. This was a project that I stumbled across quite by accident about a year ago, where a couple of guys recreated Bob Dylan‘s golden mid-6os period with the most authentic-sounding band ever, playing songs who’s lyrics are made up entirely from words and phrases taken from the writing of Dr Seuss. It has to be heard to be believed, but trust me, the album is easily one of the Top 3 things I’ve ever downloaded. Even the artwork is beautifully pastiched…

According to Mojo, mp3’s of ‘Dylan Hears A Who’ are hard to find. A bit of poking around on the internet shows this to be true. Dylan loved the music  – there’s faithful pastiches of ‘Ballad Of A Thin Man’, ‘Tombstone Blues’, ‘Queen Jane Approximately’ and much more, but the dylanhearsawho website was shut down on the instructions of the Dr Seuss estate. Booooo! Pastiche fascists! So a year late, I’m posting it here. Artwork is included!

The Cat in the Hat

There’s something happening here and you don’t know what it is? Try before you buy!  Here‘s the aforementioned splendid take on ‘Tombstone Blues’, entitled ‘Green Eggs & Ham’. See what I mean? Now go and download the whole lot. You won’t regret it. ‘Too Many Daves’ sounds like one of those hotel room tape recordings that Bob fans go mental over. I’d forgotten quite how good Dylan Hears A Who actually is. Thanks, Mojo. Now. What are you waiting for?   

Cover Versions, Hard-to-find

My Bloody Frustrating Valentine

Craig McAllister

My Bloody Valentine are back on a brief tour and the reviews have been a wee bit mixed. Some people claim they can’t hear the vocals. Some people say the show they’ve attended is the best thing ever. Some people say the noisy bit in ‘You Made Me Realise’ isn’t noisy enough. Some people say the shows are too loud. Too loud! It’s My Bloody Valentine not James Blunt. Jeez. Lets hope they get some sort of new material together soon. It’s been too long. Anyway, until then…

In anticipation of their Barrowlands shows this Wednesday and Thursday I thought I’d post these obscurities and curios. First up, My Bloody Valentine do their version of Louis Armstrong’s ‘We Have All The Time In The World’. This is taken from a 1993 Island Records charity CD called ‘Peace Together’ which set out to get young people from both sides of the religious divide in Northern Ireland working together. There’s a fair amount of Irish artists on there (U2, Fatima Mansions, Therapy?, Sinead O’Connor etc etc, you know the rest) but the My Bloody Valentine track is easily the best thing on it. Hear for yourself.

In 1998, Kevin Shields produced a one-off, released-for-a-day-then-deleted Primal Scream single. ‘If They Move Kill ‘Em’ was taken from the ‘Vanishing Point’ album, but Shields buckled and bent and twisted and distorted it inside out. It sounds backwards in places, it sounds under water in other places, it sounds other-wordly in the rest of the places. It sounds as good as the cover (below) looks. It. Is. Fantastic. Even better, there are two mixes! The My Bloody Valentine Arkestra mix and the 12″ Disco MIx (my favourite – it has a bit in it that sounds an awful lot like Jimi Hendrix‘s ‘Crosstown Traffic’). The ep also featured 2 mixes of Primal Scream covering the Jesus & Mary Chain‘s ‘Darklands‘. What the hell – here’s Darklands and here’s Badlands. Happy listening.

‘If They Move Kill ‘Em’ sleeve

*Bonus Track. Andrew Weatherall‘s seminal, yes, seminal remix of MBV‘s ‘Soon‘. It’s My Bloody Valentine, but you can dance to it! It’s a belter! If you’re reading Mr Shields, many of us would like a new album or single or chord or anything.

Kevin Shields – bloody frustrating

Cover Versions, entire show, Hard-to-find

Hang On! Acoustic Fanclub!

Craig McAllister

Last weekend was Teenage Fanclub weekend. A triple treat, a trio of tip-top turns, a heroes welcome for a hatrick of homecoming shows. And any other number of alliterative delights. Each show was different and each show was great for any number of reasons. I’ve mentioned the ‘Electric Chestnuts’ show below, so we’ll focus on the other 2 for now.

Sunday night’s setlist

Sunday night was the ‘Acoustic Chestnuts’ night and it was fantastic. Instruments were swapped, harmonies were finely honed (especially Francis- who knew drummers could sing?) and there were big smiles all round. In contrast to the sound problems of Saturday night, at some points the vocals were so good it was like listening to the Everly Brothers. Personal highlights were the songs from the Grand Prix era- ‘Don’t Look Back’, ‘Going Places’ and ‘Some People Try To Fuck With You’, which sounded like Astrud Gilberto on Buckfast.

Monday night’s setlist

Monday night was the one I was looking most forward to – the b-sides and hardly-ever-played night. Teenage Fanclub did not disappoint. The show was heavy on ‘A Catholic Education’ -era Fanclub (‘Heavy Metal’! ”Every Picture I Paint’! Eternal Light’!) and the much-neglected ‘Thirteen’ album – ‘Escher‘! ‘Gene Clark’!, ‘Ret Live Dead’!, which meant lots of distortion pedals, fewer backing vocals and the odd cocked-up start (poke about on YouTube for Norman 3). It was like a Fannies gig from way back in the day and it was extra magic, the best of the three without a doubt. Brendan O’Hare got plucked Springsteen-style from the crowd to sing ‘The Ballad Of John & Yoko’ and no-one’s mentioned this yet, but Norman’s McCartney backing vocals were pretty immense. Raymond’s frazzled playing on ‘Born Under A Good Sign’ made it sound like Love, circa 1967. They even played ‘Broken’, before coming back on for the genuinely not-planned double-whammy of ‘Sparky’s Dream’ and ‘Alcoholiday’, although had they also played ‘God Knows It’s True’ and/or ‘Everybody’s Fool’ (and given the albums they were drawing from I think they could’ve) and maybe even ‘I Heard You Looking’, if that’s not being too greedy, this gig would have been gig of the decade. Still, Best Gig of 2008 is good enough for now.  

Norman 3 (nights)

Anyway, lots of talk over at the Teenage Fanclub Message Boards about how the band should release an acoustic album, or a b-sides album, or a live album, or indeed, any kind of album at all. But an Acoustic Fanclub album would be an excellent idea. In the meantime, you could do worse than make do with these wee beauties. Firstly, recorded for ‘The White Sessions’ on French radio on the 11th April 1995….

Don’t Look Back
Say No
Star Sign
I’ll Make It Clear
Sparky’s Dream
Have You Ever Seen The Rain
Mellow Doubt

(click here to download as one complete session)

‘The White Sessions’ is a long running French radio show where bands go in and record acoustic sessions. Teenage Fanclub used their time to promote Grand Prix. The same radio station also do ‘The Black Sessions’ where the band play a longer, usually electric set in front of a small invited audience. Teenage Fanclub also did a Black Session in 1993 but I’ve never heard it. It may be that some of the tracks below are taken from it, I don’t know. An official-looking CD from the show was on sale up until yesterday on eBay and I was quite excited. But when the bidding started approaching £30 I got scared off. I couldn’t justify that sort of money for something which will probably turn up online soon. Fingers crossed. If you were the lucky bidder, how about sending me a copy?!

Also taken from my personal vaults (!) of badly-labelled Teenage Fanclub radio sessions, curios and oddities, here’s a random selection of acoustic-based Teenage Fanclub. I’m unclear as to where most of these came from. Radio sessions? I don’t know. But not b-sides. No siree. Rare Fanclub. Cos the Teenage Fanclub are a rare band, a rare band indeed. Download and enjoy!

a piano-led Hang On

Four Strong Winds

He’d Be A Diamond

Sparky’s Dream

Tears Are Cool

The Shadows (Mark Radcliffe session)

Cover Versions, Hard-to-find

A right couple of Fannies

Craig McAllister

You might know this already, but I don’t follow a very successful football team, so whilst many of my friends have recently been shelling out literally thousands of pounds to follow either half of Glasgow’s Ugly Sisters on their European exploits, I justified my decision to buy tickets for 3 nights of Teenage Fanclub shows as my equivalent of the Champions League. Three nights at Oran Mor in the West End of Glasgow. ‘Electric Chestnuts’, ‘Acoustic Chestnuts’ and the one I’m looking forward to most, the ‘B-Sides and Rarities’ night.

Last night was the first of the 3 and we were treated to what was essentially a Teenage Fanclub Greatest Hits set. With Norman as Bill Gates on vocals. No kiddin’. He looks like Bill Gates these days! The sound was a bit muddy. I hope it’s sorted out for tonight, but anyway, it was of course a cracker of a show.

Where’s my axe?

You can find the setlist for last night’s ‘Electric Chestnuts’ below (muchos gracias, John S.) As they always do, the band finished with ‘Everything Flows’, their first single. No thanks to the couple of Fannys stood next to me who talked about going to ‘the Sellic gemmes’ with Brendan and Pat and Big Mick all the way through it. I bought ‘Everything Flows’  on 7″ the day after I saw Teenage Fanclub for the first time. They were supporting the Soup Dragons in the Garage. Anyway, I digress.

Setlist, Oran Mor Saturday 14.6.08

Many other musicians love ‘Everything Flows’. I have a Velvet Crush version on 7″ that’s no’ bad, but I don’t have the means to convert it at present. Until then…

Redd Kross ‘Everything Flows’

(Rockin’! – from tribute album ‘What A Concept’)

Gallygows ‘Everything Flows’

(Mellow! – Duglas T Stewart likes this one)

Teenage Fanclub ‘Everything Flows’

(Live! – Malmo, 5th July 2005)

Cover Versions, Hard-to-find

Peter Painter Painted Pete In Pastels

Craig McAllister

Acclaimed artist and Ayrshireman Peter Howson’s very stylised work sells for tens of thousands of pounds at a time. Many of his paintings are centered around what he has observed in life – hard working men down the mines of Ayrshire, hard drinking men in the rough-round-the-edges pubs we’ve all seen wherever we live. If you look closely enough you might also see a bit of religious imagery in there. At least, I think I can. He’s also painted The Queen, Henrik Larsson and Madonna in the nude (just Madonna, not the other two.) This weekend he has been in the headlines of most of the big papers.  He’s just unveiled 6 new works which depict Pete Doherty as dead.

It would appear that the Last of the Great Romantic Poets has a bit of a death wish. Some of you may think this is a good thing. Certainly, many would argue that his best years as a writer are behind him. Howson is no stranger to this sort of criricism himself. After a battle with drink and drugs he found God, then found himself on the frontline in Bosnia as the Governent’s Official War Artist. He says his paintings are a warning to Doherty, that he’s lived the scuzzy lifestyle himself and he fears Doherty will end up dead.

“I’ve painted Pete dead before he ends up that way. This is my warning to him. I don’t want him to die but he surely will soon unless he changes. Pete can influence a whole generation by kicking this evil habit. He could become the right kind of hero. I know what it is like to live the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. I would love to meet Pete and shake some sense into him.”

In one drawing, Doherty is wearing a Dante hat instead of his usual trilby. It’s a reference to Dante‘s poem Divine Comedy, about his trip to hell.

Pete’s people said: “I don’t believe Howson knows Peter so I don’t know where he got his inspiration from. We have not seen the drawings.”

The pictures went on show yesterday (Sunday) at ArtDeCaf, Glasgow.

Anyway, all this gives us a good excuse to get out the Libertines bootlegs and give you some stuff you may never have heard before. First up, Pete plays The La’s. This is a 28 minute studio outtake of him messing around playing ‘Son Of A Gun’, ‘Callin’ All’, ‘Timeless Melody’ and some Smiths stuff amongst a whole rake of familiar and unheard Doherty originals. Sponatneous? Certainly. Rough? Definitely. Essential? Of course! Next up, ‘Hooligans On E’, from another studio session (date unknown, sorry). I bloody love this half-baked, half-finished song. Some of the lyrics are great. Also, you can have this beauty. ‘Road To Ruin’ is different to the album version. It features a great spooky keyboard part. Mostly sung by Carl, it’s just about my favourite Libertines outtake. Finally, if you fancy a lazy Sunday hanging around art galleries looking at paintings of dead people who aren’t dead yet, this is for you. The Libertines do the Small Faces ‘Lazy Sunday’. Originally on the soundtrack to the film ‘Blackball‘, it sounds just as you’d expect. Which is half arsed and out of tune. Of course.

 

Gone but not forgotten, Hard-to-find

Funky Lee Hooker

Craig McAllister

I was looking for my gardening gloves (!) yesterday and way at the back of my garage I found a box of half a dozen or so compilation CDs I had made up a few years ago. They’ve been in the garage since I moved house 2 years ago and I had forgotten all about them. Needless to say I was delighted with my wee find and I spent yesterday afternoon rooting through my weeds and rooting through my CDs in search of ‘new’ music.

So….here’s 2 tracks by the mighty John Lee Hooker. Both called ‘Homework’, both different in their own way. They may even be 2 versions of the same song, but I’m not sure! The first comes on like Sly & The Family Stone, with a great swampy bassline and a lyric possibly about cheatin’ on his woman, the second sounds more like James Brown, with a clipped Jimmy Nolen-esque guitar riff and a lyric this time about coming home and finding someone else teaching his old lady a thing or two about the finer things in life. The first version comes with added vinyl crackles and pops from 1971’s ‘Free Beer And Chicken’ album. The second I have from a 1992 Point Blank promo CD, although I think it was released around this time as a b-side to a re-released version of ‘Boom Boom’.

Cool

And that’s really all I know about these tracks except to say that they make me dance on my tiptoes. Up until now, Stevie Wonder‘s ‘Superstition’ and ‘Upside Down’ by Diana Ross have been the only 2 records capable of making me do this. John Lee Hooker has an incredible back catalogue, but it’s a bit of a mine field. What’s good? What’s bad? What’s essential? Many compilations feature re-recorded versions of older tracks – by 1960 he had released over 100 singles! It’s not surprising that many of these tracks were re-cut as movers ‘n shakers like John Hammond, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, etc etc blah blah blah worshipped at his impeccably dressed feet. If you’d like to get deeper into him, you could do worse than visit this site. It has everything you need and probably a whole lot more.

 

 

Hard-to-find

I Love Baroque ‘n Roll

Craig McAllister

Put another dime in the jukebox, baby! Fleet Foxes are possibly the most talked about band of the moment. If you’re looking in the right places, they’re everywhere. Having made a big splash at this year’s SXSW, 6 Music has them on constant rotation, Mojo‘s just given them Album Of The Month and June sees them tour Europe. If you’re not looking in the right places, Fleet Foxes will no doubt find you anyway.

The band think of themselves as ‘not much of a rock band’. They describe their music as ‘baroque harmonic pop jams‘ and that’s as good a description as you’ll get. With a dash of Left Banke choral harmonies, a splash of Brian Wilson’s uplifting melancholia and a mash of retro-modernism a la Midlake, they manage to sound both like everything you’ve ever heard before and nothing you’ve ever heard before. While waiting for Sub Pop to release their debut album in America, they recorded the 5 track ‘Sun Giant’ ep to sell at gigs. You can track track this down to buy, if you look in all the right places. You can also get the album in 2 weeks time in the UK (£7.99 from Play). I’ve got my order in, but while waiting for it I thought I’d put my mp3 copies of these 2 releases onto CD. When I realised that I still had 20+ minutes to fill on my disc, I went poking about the internet to see if I could find anything else by my new favourite band…..

….and I found this 2006 self-titled 6 track ep.

She Got Dressed

In The Hot, Hot Rays

Anyone Who’s Anyone

Textbook Love

So Long To The Headstrong

Icicle Tusk

There’s very little information to be found anywhere about it. I don’t know if the current 5 piece line up plays on it. I don’t know if it was released anywhere. I don’t know if anyone bought it. I do know it’s fantastic. The influences mentioned above are very much to the fore. It sounds lovely. And added to the album and ‘Sun Giant’ ep it makes a nice wee Fleet Foxes CD (if you delete your least favourite track!) I won’t put the other 2 official releases up for grabs, but in the traditions of Plain Or Pan‘s hard-to-find only policy, these are all yours.

And don’t feel guilty about downloading the tracks either. Main Fox Skye’s world changed forever after downloading the Smile sessions bootleg. Maybe Fleet Foxes will change your world – that’s what he’s hoping for. See you down the front at the ABC on the 18th June. You coming Quinny?

***!!!***!!!UPDATE MARCH ’09. More Fleet Foxes stuff here!***!!!***