When Fleet Foxes released their self-titled debut album in 2008, they caught the music industry and themselves by surprise. The brooding, introspective folk album struck a chord with audiences and propelled the band to a level of stardom for which they weren’t completely prepared. Despite the meteoric rise to fame, the group settled back and took their time on the follow-up, the just-released Helplessness Blues. Frontman and chief songwriter Robin Pecknold felt the pressure of capturing the magic of the first record while still moving forward as an artist.
“It was hard toeing the line between making something that felt like a sequel and a new thing entirely,” Pecknold told the Guardian. “We didn’t set out thinking, ‘Let’s make it more X or more Y.’ It was just what felt intuitive. But I don’t think I could have written these songs three years ago.”
“When we were working on the first one, we were happy to be done with it,” Pecknold continued. “But while we were working on it, there wasn’t as much pressure or strife. We recorded that record and then you have to live with it for three years, and you just grow and change as a person and, as far as the outside world is concerned, all you are is just 35 minutes of music. So I think we really wanted to put something out there that we could then live with again for three years and be O.K. with it, not be biting our nails about what it was or wasn’t.”
As for the group, which recently added multi-instrumentalist Morgan Henderson (The Blood Brothers, Sharks Keep Moving), Pecknold says the band is constantly evolving.
“I still think everyone’s role is developing,” Pecknold said. “I think my role even is developing, and where it will be in the future is not where it was at the start. What the band was, making the first record, was… You’re a guy who plays in a local band – maybe three or four local bands, just playing in Seattle once in a while. It was just one of those things that you’re doing. Then after all this stuff, it became the main thing. Before the band got successful, I could just be the songwriter and one of the singers. And now I’m like [the] bandleader. And I’m learning how to do a lot of that stuff, lead the group and be a more even presence.”
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