Hold your horses, Fleet Foxes fans: While news last month that the Seattle folk-rockers were “flying to New York tomorrow to mix and master” the highly anticipated follow-up to their self-titled debut was indeed exciting, frontman Robin Pecknold has now revealed that he “spoke too soon.” From the band’s Facebook page:
The record, while close to being done, still has a ways to go. Would have been nice to have realized this BEFORE flying to New York to finish it, but so it goes. This is how the first record went too – I think two songs were kept from the first batch of 12 we recorded for that album. Back into the cave. Thanks for waiting / caring, we just want it to be really great. -RP
By all means, boys, take your time. Meanwhile, we’ll be re-watching Pecknold’s tour documentary here and studying photos from the studio, aka “the cave,” here.