"I put the organ on and put it through the Moog at the same time, so that one side of the stereo had the direct organ sound and the other side had the return through the Moog synthesizer. It's sort of like a vibrato, but the frequency changes, there's a tone change, like a graphic tone. Do you know what a graphic equalizer is? Well, it just springs out, you can amplify any part of a sound spectrum, like from 50 cycles to 10,000 cycles. The Moog did that automatically."
- excerpt of Carl Wilson explaining a production technique used on the Surf's Up LP, from Rolling Stone, October 1971
"I took that song in a very strange way, I thought it was more or less about oral sex." - Dennis Wilson on She's Goin' Bald, Rolling Stone, November 1976
This is undoubtedly my single favorite album of all time. It feels like such a perfect culmination of all the themes and ideas Fleet Foxes has been working with since 2008. It answers many of the questions found on both Helplessness Blues and Crack-Up, and represents an incredible maturation and growth in Robin Pecknold's perspective. Their other albums are certainly masterpieces, but this, in my opinion, is their magnum opus. I doubt it will be recognized as such in its time. isaiah_stuart