Watch Fleet Foxes cover The Strokes’ ‘Under Control’ in New York

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Fleet Foxes performed a cover of The Strokes’ 2003 song ‘Under Control’.The band played to roughly 13,000 fans at the Forest Hills Stadium on Saturday (August 13), where they were supported by Nigerian singer-songwriter Uwade.

She joined Robin Pecknold and co. for their Strokes cover – as well as three other songs in their career-spanning setlist – which came as part of an “encore” that ran for more a third as long as the rest of the show.Oddly, too, Fleet Foxes weren’t the only act to cover ‘Under Control’ at show in New York last weekend.

Blood Orange covered the song on Friday (August 12) when he played an intimate club show in Brooklyn, and even welcomed out his own supporting vocalist, longtime collaborator Eva Tolkin, to take the mic.It’s noteworthy, too, that ‘Under Control’ is a relatively obscure choice of Stokes song for both acts to cover in the same city, over the same weekend, with the same vocal setup, at different shows some 10 miles (16 kilometres) apart: the song, which appears on The Strokes’ 2003 album ‘Room On Fire’, was never issued as a single, and certainly isn’t among the band’s most popular songs.Nevertheless, Fleet Foxes put an enchanting spin on the song, performing it as a 10-piece (with Uwade and four backing vocalists filling out the stage) with a radiant, soulful edge.

Have a look at some crowd-shot footage of the cover below, then see the full setlist from Saturday’s show:1. ‘Wading In Waist-High Water’ (with Uwade)2. ‘Sunblind’ 3. ‘Can I Believe You’ 4. ‘Ragged Wood’ 5. ‘Your Protector’ 6. ‘He Doesn’t Know Why’ 7. ‘Featherweight’ 8. ‘Third Of May / Ōdaigahara’ 9. ‘White Winter Hymnal’ 10. ‘Phoenix’ (Big Red Machine cover) 11. ‘Mearcstapa’ 12. ‘Mykonos’ 13. ‘I’m Not My Season’ (Robin.