Uber-cool Seattle band Fleet Foxes cut this seven-minute-plus video in an echoey abandoned room in Paris Grand Palais. Lots of natural echo, which is part of Fleet Foxes' signature, cool a cappella vocals and then a bit of sparse instrumentation. If you've not yet gotten hip to Fleet Foxes, this is a nice little primer.

Fleet Foxes – A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

This article appears in Nov 19-25, 2008.

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