Fleet Foxes‘ Robin Pecknold has opened up on completing the band’s surprise new album ‘Shore’ during the coronavirus-enforced lockdown.The Seattle group released their fourth studio effort, the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Crack-Up’, earlier today (September 22) to coincide with the beginning of the autumnal equinox.
It arrived with an accompanying film which was shot in Washington, Oregon and Idaho.“All the lyrics came out of reflections around what’s going on right now and tying that into personal things,” the band’s frontman told Zane Lowe on Apple Music, revealing how he “ended up just driving around in self-quarantine, writing lyrics and singing” throughout June.“It’s a time of obviously incredible hardship, but hopefully there’s a lot of new.
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