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A preface to the best album of 2008
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I've been meaning to get Fleet Foxes' 2008 EP Sun Giant for quite a while, and today I finally bought it in Berkeley. This is great music propelled by the Seattle band's principal songwriter Robin Pecknold. Like their self-title album, they often use harmonies which work brillantly for them. Sun Giant is a preface, a taste to what we would come with Fleet Foxes, widely asserted as the 
best album of 2008. I would agree with that, "Ragged Wood" is genius. Finally, I would recommend buying a physical copy of the EP rather than downloading it or ripping it from a friend because in the inside cover there is this (quoted from a larger section):
"A very smart and gifted friend of mine told me once that music is a kind of replacement for the natural world that, before civilization or whatever, the world must have seemed a place of such immense wonder and confusion, so terrifying in a way, unthinkably massive and majestic, and that that feeling of mystery and amazement is somehow hardwired into us. Once the world became commonplace, mapped, and conquered, that mystery left our common mind and we needed something to replace it with and, then along came music. I think she's right. Music is magic to me, transporative and full of wonder in a way that I have trouble getting from the natural world all the human things that make the natural world so hard to connect with just aren't there with music."
Thomas Jefferson
January 2008
New York City, NY
You don't have to agree with that, but it is something interesting to think about.
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