Fleet Foxes Announce New Album Crack-Up For June 2017 Release

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A couple big announcements coming out of the Fleet Foxes world today, new album titled Crack-Up, a single off the album and additional North American shows to be added to their European tour.

The new album is set to be released on June 16 and will be released via Nonesuch Records. The long awaited third album comes six years after their 2011 release Helplessness Blues and nearly a decade since their self-titled debut album back in 2008. To accompany the album announcement, the band has release a single titled “Third of May / Ōdaigahara,” seen below. The new single is a nine minute long epic driven by piano and an electric twelve-string guitar, a string quartet and the group’s trademark sparkling harmonies. Crack-Up will consist of eleven tracks that were all written by Robin Pecknold, the band’s principle song writer. The album was co-produced by Pecknold and Skyler Skjelset, who is a longtime band mate, collaborator and childhood friend to his. There are a number of studios that the album were recorded across the United States between July 2016 and January 2017: Electric Lady Studios, Sear Sound, The Void, Rare Book Room, Avast and The Unknown. Phil Ex is credited for mixing the album at Sear Sound, while Greg Calbi mastered it at Sterling Sound. For the album’s cover art and its full tracklist, see below.

The newly added North American stint to their 2017 tour has the band performing at nine more shows than before. They will start on July 27 in Portland, ME at Thompson’s Point and finish on September 27 in Morrison, CO at the infamous Red Rocks Amphitheater with Beach House. The additional tour dates has the group playing couple festivals including the sold out Newport Folk Festival and the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival in Brooklyn, NY. For a full list of tour dates and ticketing information, see below.

Crack-Up Tracklist:

1. I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar
2. Cassius, –
3. – Naiads, Cassadies
4. Kept Woman
5. Third of May / Ōdaigahara
6. If You Need To, Keep Time on Me
7. Mearcstapa
8. On Another Ocean (January / June)
9. Fool’s Errand
10. I Should See Memphis
11. Crack-Up

Fleet Foxes 2017 International Tour Dates:

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May 26 Sydney, Australia at Sydney Opera House
May 27 Sydney, Australia at Sydney Opera House
May 28 Sydney, Australia at Sydney Opera House
May 29 Sydney, Australia at Sydney Opera House
July 1 Spain, Vilanova i la Geltrú at Vida Festival
July 3 Italy, Ferrara at Bands Apart
July 7 Spain, Bilbao at Bilbao BBK Live
July 13 Ireland, Dublin at The Iveagh Gardens
July 14 Ireland, Dublin at The Iveagh Gardens
July 16 United Kingdom, Southwold at Latitude Festival
July 27 Portland ME at Thompson’s Point
July 28 Newport RI at Newport Folk Festival
July 29 Columbia MD at Merriweather Post Pavilion w/ Animal Collective
July 31 Philadelphia PA at Mann Center for the Performing Arts w/ Animal Collective
August 1 Brooklyn NY at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell
August 4 Toronto ON at Massey Hall
August 6 Detroit MI at The Masonic
September 23 Los Angeles CA at Hollywood Bowl w/ Beach House
September 27 Morrison CO at Red Rocks Amphitheater w/ Beach House