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Alternate Soundtrack: Fleet Foxes Meet RPGs

Posted by Bob Mackey

In trying to give one of my friends a good description of the awesome self-titled Fleet Foxes album, I told him that listening to it was like "wandering through a magical forest with your very own bard." It's not just my nerdy leanings that inspired the comparison; Fleet Foxes is a strange mix of James Taylor, Brian Wilson, and Yasunori Mitsuda. In fact, on the multiple holiday car rides I've suffered thus far, I've been known to crank Fleet Foxes and imagine some marvelous new RPG that taps into the power of a band whose music seems tailor-made for the genre--and I don't have a single car accident on my record.

To prove my point, I've taken one of the albums most RPGish songs, "Hear Them Stirring," and set it to some console RPG footage with my limited video editing skills. Hopefully, you'll see why I'm right.

And while I in no way get paid to promote Fleet Foxes, it'd be swell if you went and picked up their album for the meager price of five bucks. Thanks in advance.

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Posted Dec 19 2008, 03:00 PM

Filed under: alternate soundtrack, ost, chrono cross, yasunori mitsuda, bob mackey, fleet foxes

Comments

Rob said:

love it. now i want white winter hymnal with a snow village.

December 19, 2008 10:59 PM

Demaar said:

Definitely sounds like something from an RPG, Western or Japanese.

I can imagine entering some huge city that's meant to be awe inspiring or climbing some mountain type thing having this music in the background. Pretty neat.

December 20, 2008 9:12 AM

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