• Can't Wait Too Long (Originally Unreleased, Recorded 1967-1968)
"Can't Wait Too Long is really far out. We've got about four versions of it. I don't know anyone else who has done stuff like that." - Mike Love, Crawdaddy Magazine, June 1971
"There's a drug treatment center in Texas that when people take too much acid and space out, they sit them down and put headphones on them and play Smiley Smiley because it's such a down, soft album." - Carl Wilson, Crawdaddy Magazine, June 1971
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