Fleet Foxes, Chicago, July 17, 2008

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Fleet Foxes / Photo by Laura Gray

Fleet Foxes, Chicago, July 17, 2008

Laura Gray
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Fleet Foxes / Photo by Laura Gray

SPIN's Week in Review, July 7-11

What we learned this week: The Smashing Pumpkins are turning 20. Beck may carry a little Guilt, but he's as good as ever. And much more.
The Smashing Pumpkins / Photo by Ben Solomon

After the smoke cleared and the hangovers faded from the weekend's big bombs and bashes, the party raged on as the Smashing Pumpkins unveiled plans to celebrate their 20th anniversary, the fruits of Beck and Danger Mouse's partnership arrived, and Albert Hammond Jr. went to bat. Let's recap:

New Fleet Foxes Video: 'White Winter Hymnal'

Seattle-bred psych-folkies get animated, mystic with video for heavenly tune off their eponymous debut album.
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 me

Fleet Foxes

West Coast prodigies float on heavenly harmonies.
Fleet Foxes / Photo by John Clark

When they spotted a meteor crater in the Arizona desert recently, Seattle's

Fleet Foxes, 'Fleet Foxes' (Sub Pop)

Seattle kids conjure up a gorgeous backwoods tableau.

After releasing Sun Giant, a five-track EP, earlier this year, Fleet Foxes have corralled their sprawling, harmony-laden rock into a remarkable debut album.

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