Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues (Bella Union) *****
Andy Gill, Independent, The, 22 April 2011
WITH HELPLESSNESS Blues, Fleet Foxes triumphantly deliver on the promise of their popular debut, the album that helped establish folk-rock once again as a formidable commercial force rather than just a fringe interest.
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