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Fleet Foxes “Bedouin Dress”

Fleet Foxes make very pleasant music, but despite gesturing in the general direction of deeper ideas and some kind of spiritual resonance, I find their songs to be lacking in substance. I’m not complaining about that, really — I don’t get mad at candy for having no nutritional value, after all. The appeal of “Bedouin Dress” is purely musical, it totally crumbles the second I try to pay attention to the words, which are mainly neo-hippie drivel tossed in with a possible allusion to Yeats. The pleasure is in getting swept away in its breeziness and not thinking at all. It’s beard folk bubblegum.

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