Bang! This song starts kicking in with folky guitar strumming and vocal harmonies that are slightly reminiscent of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Driving drums keeps us rolling, and gives a really pleasant  feeling of driving down a long stretch of highway, as the sun rises over the horizon. Or at least, it does for me. Beautiful and poetic, yet cryptic lyrics are the order of the day, as it starts out with the first verse:

Come down from the mountain, you have been gone too long
The spring is upon us, follow my only song
Settle down with me by the fire of my yearning
You should come back home, back on your own now

More wonderful vocal melodies pass by and we get thrown back into another verse.

The world is alive now, in and outside our home
You run through the forest, settle before the sun
Darling, I can barely remember you beside me
You should come back home, back on your own now

Obviously this is a song about a guy, who is missing is lover, and wants to see her again. Then it slows down, and we get a strange bridge, with basic finger picking, a little bit of egg shaker, and minimal backing electric guitar.

And even in the light, when the woman of the woods came by
To give to you the word of the old man
In the morning tide when the sparrow and the seagull fly
And Johnathan and Evelyn get tired

We now move into this sort of strange, almost Metroid-esc guitar bit. Then, driving bass, and BAM! All the sudden, what happened to that other song we were listening to? Did this just change into another song completly, while staying the same song? (if that makes any sense to you) The answer is yes. This song is actually presented to us in two parts. An A,B format, if you will. I have to be totally frank with you at this point. There are few things that give me a bigger musical hard-on, then ability to pull this off. And friends, Fleet Foxes does it flawlessly.

So we finish off with this little lyric:

Lie to me if you will at the top of Beringer Hill
Tell me anything you want, any old lie will do
Call me back to you
Back to you

And we get to listen to the last part repeated, until they end together. All in all, a masterpiece of song writing, if you ask me. The combination of mostly acoustic instruments, earnest male vocal harmonies, gives this song (and the band, as you will find if you choose to pursue them farther) a old world feel that is compelling and amazing.

-James out