NPR: Stream New Fleet Foxes, The Antlers Albums

NPR.org has a feature called “First Listen” wherein you can preview upcoming albums. Currently available for stream are Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues and The Antlers Burst Apart…

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The making of Helplessness Blues — out May 3 — was a long and painstaking process. After coming off a seemingly endless tour last fall, Fleet Foxes entered into recording sessions that were fraught with second-guessing and a lack of consensus. Multiple songs were re-recorded; the entire album had to be mixed twice…

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Fortunately for The Antlers, this unscripted approach worked. While Hospice was a carefully plotted album with a unifying theme — Silberman’s elegy to a dying friend — the new Burst Apart is a collection of discrete songs that sound great together but aren’t bound by a particular concept…

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Head over to “First Listen” at NPR.org and enjoy.