Fleet Foxes / Photo by Sean Pecknold
Considering the lauding words thrust upon Seattle's Fleet Foxes of late -- read: pastoral, folkie, heavenly, and organic -- the music video for "White Winter Hymnal," a gorgeous tune off the band's just-released eponymous debut album, falls in line with the outfit's methodology and countrified sonic.
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With production and clay animation by Sean Pecknold, brother of Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold, the treatment is essentially what you'd expect from the Foxes' video debut: Rustic, bearded woodsmen ponder and live within the earth's seasonal calendar, while one particular clay individual spins the heavens on a wheel, controlling the changing seasons and all their trimmings -- snow, blossoming flowers, birds, rivers, etc. Quite simply, the music video for "White Winter Hymnal" is a consummate fit for its subject.
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