Song · Fleet Foxes
“Fool's Errand” by Fleet Foxes
From the album Crack‐Up (2017)
“Fool's Errand” by Fleet Foxes appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations in 2017. It was first released in 2017 on the album Crack‐Up. Its best result is #27 on the 90.9 The Bridge Top 100 Songs of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #86 indie & aaa song of 2017.
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"Fool's Errand" comes from Crack-Up, the third Fleet Foxes album, which landed on Nonesuch in June 2017 after a three-year break and a move away from Sub Pop. Robin Pecknold wrote it and produced it with Skyler Skjelset, and the credits read like the inventory of a well-stocked attic: Pecknold himself plays acoustic, classical and other guitars, electric bass, piano, harpsichord, marimba, autoharp and Minimoog, Skjelset adds synthesizer, Matt Barrick handles drums and percussion, and Christian Wargo plays bass. Pecknold and Skjelset share the vocals.
The album was pieced together in a string of American studios, Electric Lady and Sear Sound among them, between July 2016 and January 2017, and a small army of engineers worked on this track before Phil Ek mixed it. The record takes its title, and loose inspiration, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's essay collection.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 29 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2017 | 90 |
| 2017 | 27 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 100 Songs of 2017 | 90 |
| 2017 | 87 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2017 | 89 |
Also listed as: Fools Errand.
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