Crack-Up
by Fleet Foxes
- Type: Album
- Released: 16 June 2017
- Label: Nonesuch
- Country: United States
- Length: 55:00
- Community rating: 3.92/5 from 21 ratings
Artists on this release: Christian Wargo, Skyler Skjelset, Morgan Henderson, Robin Pecknold, Casey Wescott
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Marking the band's return from a six-year hiatus, 'Crack-Up' is a stylistically ambitious work of progressive folk that largely eschews conventional song structures in favor of sprawling, multi-part suites with abrupt shifts in tempo and dynamics. [1, 10] The album, co-produced by frontman Robin Pecknold, features dense and intricate arrangements that weave the group's signature vocal harmonies into complex instrumental layers, field recordings, and dissonant textures. [3, 5] Drawing its title and thematic inspiration from an F. Scott Fitzgerald essay, the record explores concepts of interpersonal and internal conflict with a newfound lyrical abstraction that departs from the more direct narrative style of their earlier releases. [7, 8, 13]
Genres
Descriptors: folk, acoustic, vocal, orchestral, progressive
Tracklist
- I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar (06:24)
- Cassius, - (04:49)
- - Naiads, Cassadies (03:10)
- Kept Woman (03:54)
- Third of May / ÅŒdaigahara (08:45)
- If You Need To, Keep Time on Me (03:30)
- Mearcstapa (04:09)
- On Another Ocean (January / June) (04:23)
- Fool's Errand (04:48)
- I Should See Memphis (04:44)
- Crack-Up (06:24)
Credits
- Robin Pecknold - vocals, multi-instrumentalist, lyrics by, songwriter, production, band [fleet foxes]
- Skyler Skjelset - multi-instrumentalist, vocals, production, band [fleet foxes]
- Casey Wescott - multi-instrumentalist, vocals, engineering (avast recording company), band [fleet foxes]
- Christian Wargo - multi-instrumentalist, vocals, drums (tracks: 10), electric bass (tracks: 1, 7, 10, 11), band [fleet foxes]
- Morgan Henderson - multi-instrumentalist, band [fleet foxes]
- Hannah Epperson - violin (tracks 1–3, 5, 11)
- Matthew Barrick - drum kit and percussion (tracks 1–3, 5, 9)
- Christopher Icasiano - drum kit and percussion (tracks 7, 8, 11)
- Neal Morgan - drum kit (bridge of track 1, end of track 8), percussion (track 1)
- Brian McPherson - spoken word (track 1)
- Andy Clausen - arranged by [horns arranged by]
- Gabriel Gall - string quartet on "i am all that i need / arroyo seco / thumbprint scar" and "i should see memphis"
- Phil Ek - mixing
- Greg Calbi - mastering
- Chris Allen - engineering (sear sound)
- Grant Valentine - engineering (sear sound)
- Owen Mulholland - engineering (sear sound)
- Gabe Wax - engineering (rare book room)
- Adam Burd - engineering (avast recording company)
- Gosha Usov - engineering (electric lady studios)
- Beatriz Artola - engineering (electric lady studios)
- Sean Pecknold - lyric video created by
- Adi Goodrich - lyric video created by
- Hiroshi Hamaya - artwork