Having avoided Covid since the outbreak of the pandemic, he contracted it right before two weeks of rehearsals for the first Fleet Foxes tour since 2017 began. When I remind him that next year marks the 15th anniversary of Fleet Foxes’ astounding eponymous debut album, he seems genuinely flummoxed. I’m probably the only person on earth that’s thought about Fleet Foxes every day for the last 15 years. “I also really love that the critical conversation that I’m reading [nowadays] is pretty ... Well, Fleet Foxes is not really getting ‘think-pieced’ any more,” he chuckles. However, solo tours are a possibility at some point, he reveals, having now generated enough Fleet Foxes songs that he can play without a full band to fill a set with.

Source: The Irish Times August 25, 2022 09:06 UTC