In addition to taking some time to work on new songs out in Pt. Townsend, Seattle’s Fleet Foxes have been on tour to Europe and back already this year, and last week surrounded a Coachella appearance with short west coast jaunt. In preparation for Sasquatch I thought I’d see if any new songs or covers had made appearances in the preceding months while I haven’t been paying attention. Praise youtube, I came up golden! Er, should I say silver?

First off, above is a recording from their recent Portland show of song they’ve been working on for some time called “Silver City.” Below is another unnamed song from that same show where Pecknold plays solo (on 12-string I think) and a preface with the song warning that he is still working on it.

A few other things of note include:

Cover-wise, up first (above) is a recording of a Bob Dylan cover that Robin Pecknold did for BBC for session in February. “It Ain’t Me Babe” is a cover that had originally been posted to Pecknold’s solo myspace page where he was known as White Antelope, and in the wake of that page going public, he must have decided to do it for this session.

Up next is another cover that Pecknold was also doing solo on the European tour, a song titled “My Only Son” originally by Duncan Browne.

Also I came across a b-side to the “White Winter Hymnal” single titled “Isles,” a track that was released in July of last year by European label Bella Union that I somehow missed until now.

Lot’s of good stuff to chew on here…

Fleet Foxes play the main stage at Sasquatch on Monday May 25 at 4:55pm.