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Fleet Foxes

Sunblind

Release date: 21st September 2020

From Shore
Track 2
4:14
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'Sunblind' opens Shore as a sustained act of remembrance. Robin Pecknold moves through a litany of musicians who have died, naming them across the verses and parenthetical asides: Richard Swift, John and Bill, Judee and Smith, Arthur Russell, Duncan and Curtis, Jimi and David, Nick and Otis, Bell and Buckley, Marvin and Adam. The song holds these figures as anchors, as sources of instruction and grace. Pecknold positions himself in their shadow, singing "I'm overmatched" and "I'm half as wise", yet the music itself refuses diminishment. It swells with warmth, with the kind of lush arrangement that suggests not defeat but inheritance. The track unfolds through a series of imagined acts: borrowing a guitar, swimming in warm American water with friends, carrying forward the texts and leads these musicians have left behind. There is something defiant in this, a refusal to let influence calcify into mere nostalgia. The chorus arrives with a kind of rapture, Pecknold's voice climbing as he sings of feeling "sunblind" in their reflected light, "loud and alive" in the presence of those who came before. The song was the last to be completed for the album, finished only weeks before release, yet it reads as the record's foundation, the place where gratitude and ambition become indistinguishable.

"Sunblind" is a track by Fleet Foxes, from the album Shore, released 21st September 2020. The track is 4:14 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Fleet Foxes.

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Lyrics

Sunblind

For Richard Swift
For John and Bill
For every gift lifted far before its will
Judee and Smith
For Berman too
I've met the myth hanging heavy over you
I loved you long
You rose to go
Beneath you, songs, perfect angels in the snow
So time to stage
Forget reserve
The type of great coronation you deserve
I'm going out for a weekend
I'm gonna borrow a Martin or Gibson
With Either/Or and The Hex for my Bookends
Carrying every text that you've given
I'm gonna swim for a week in
Warm American Water with dear friends
Swimming high on a lea in an Eden
Running all of the leads you've been leaving
I'm overmatched (for Arthur Russell)
I'm half as wise (Duncan and Curtis)
If this is flat, brother I apologize
(Jimi and David, for Nick and Otis)
No one alone (For Bell and Buckley)
Can leave the cave (Marvin and Adam)
And all you've loaned won't be kept inside a grave
(For Arthur Russell, for Arthur Russell)
I'm gonna swim for a week in
Warm American water with dear friends
Just intending that I would delight them
Swimming high on a lea in an Eden
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
So I dream, dream
So I dream, dream
I'm gonna swim for a week in
Warm American water with dear friends
Swimming high on a lea in an Eden
Running all of the leads you've been leaving
And in your rarified air I feel sunblind
I'm looking up at you there high in my mind
Only way that I made it for a long time
But I'm loud and alive, singing to you all night, night
(Warm American water)

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From Shore

4:142020
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Shore
Shore
Fleet Foxes
22nd September 2020
Track number
2
Release year
2020
  1. 1Wading In Waist-High Water
    2:15
  2. 2Sunblind
    4:14
  3. 3Can I Believe You
    4:04
  4. 4Jara
    4:09

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Robin Pecknold
    Lyricist
    Robin Pecknold
    Producer
    Robin Pecknold
    Engineer
    Beatriz Artola
    Drums
    Christopher Bear, Homer Steinweiss, Joshua Jaeger
    Vocals
    Robin Pecknold
    Additional Engineering
    Bastien Lozier, Christopher Cerullo, Jens Jungkurth, Jonathan Low, Lauren Marquez, Michael Harris, Paul Spring
    Arranger
    Robin Pecknold
    Instrumentation
    Robin Pecknold
    Mastering Engineer
    Joe LaPorta
    Mixing Engineer
    Beatriz Artola
    Percussion
    Christopher Bear, Homer Steinweiss, Joshua Jaeger
    Recording Engineer
    Beatriz Artola
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