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Crack‐Up by Fleet Foxes
Crack‐Up is an album by Fleet Foxes, released in 2017. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Fool's Errand”, on 3 lists with a best position of #27.
Crack-Up, Fleet Foxes' third album, arrived on June 16, 2017, their first on Nonesuch Records after leaving Sub Pop and the follow-up to 2011's Helplessness Blues. The band had spent three years away, from 2013 to 2016, and reconvened to make it themselves, with Robin Pecknold leading Skyler Skjelset, Casey Wescott, Christian Wargo and Morgan Henderson. The title and loose inspiration come from F. Scott Fitzgerald's essay collection of the same name.
This is not the warm campfire folk of the early records. Crack-Up is restless and knotty, songs that stop, splinter and start again in new directions, those famous harmonies stacked up high against sudden bursts of strings and noise. It's progressive folk that demands patience and rewards it. "Fool's Errand" is the most direct way in, while "Third of May/Odaigahara" sprawls and shifts like a whole suite folded into one song.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Crack‐Up on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fool's Errand | 3 | #27 | – | 2017 | |
| 2 | Third of May/Odaigahara | 2 | #48 | – | 2017 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.