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After five years away, Fleet Foxes are ‘definitely’ coming back. The announcement comes from the band’s guitarist, Christian Wargo.
This is the first known activity of the band since the release of their second album, Helplessness Blues in 2011.
Since the band’s last album, lead singer, Robin Pecknold, enrolled at the University of Columbia to gain his undergraduate degree and played a number of solo gigs. Most notably the singer opened for Joanna Newsom on her American tour. Notably, drummer J Tillman since departed the band to find huge success as solo sensation, Father John Misty.
But whilst Pecknold was studying for his undergraduate degree to see ‘what that was about’, guitarist Wargo has been working as an illustrator and a woodworker. In an interview with DISTINCT,Wargo explained that he and Pecknold had talked about getting the band back together at a Joanna Newsom gig in Los Angeles.
Wargo said, “It’s not, like, ‘announced’ or anything, and none of us really knew it was coming, but it’s happening,” the guitarist continued, “Possibly unofficially at this stage, but it’s definitely a thing.”
In December 2015, Pecknold released a cover of ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind’ by The Five Keys. He was also part of the supergroup that was founded to celebrate the life of Gene Clark of The Byrds. He played alongside Beach House, Grizzly Bear, The Walkmen and Wye Oak.
