Robin Pecknold Working on New Fleet Foxes Music, Covers Harry Nilsson’s "Don’t Forget Me": Listen

Robin Pecknold is working on new Fleet Foxes music, he’s revealed on Instagram (via Reddit). Pecknold, who’s been operating lately as a solo artist, told a fan imploring him to “come back!” that he’d return next year. “My plan is to record and tour and then go back to finish after so not soon,” he wrote. Asked if it was for solo work or Fleet Foxes, he replied, “FF + etc.” He added that Neal Morgan, who’s been drumming on Pecknold’s solo work, will join Fleet Foxes for the new material. Speaking about the new songs, he added that they have a “different vibe from both [the early material] and 2008-2011 FF.” He elaborated, “please trust my time-fortified discernment as I endeavor to scrub the soundfield of BS and empty sonic reference.”

Later in the thread, Pecknold responds to a question about the grammatical validity of Radiohead’s new album title, A Moon Shaped Pool, with a brilliantly nerdy theory:

My current theory is that there shouldn’t be a hyphen: the title is actually (and sneakily) a complete SVO sentence. Moon is the subject, Shaped the verb, and Pool is the object here. A moon has “shaped” (influenced, formed, guided by its beauty) an individual named Pool (Paul? McCartney). Perhaps Thom and Paul had a nice night drinking wine under a full moon and the experience shaped Paul and Thom wanted to honor the evening with this title. This is all conjecture but that’s where I’m at with it rn

Elsewhere, another Reddit user has unearthed a new solo track released last month by Pecknold as part of a new short film. A Study in Time Travel, a Sean Pecknold short, features Robin’s cover of Harry Nilsson’s “Don’t Forget Me,” recorded with Neal Morgan. Watch it below; the cover starts at 18:45.

Watch Fleet Foxes perform “Grown Ocean” at Pitchfork Music Festival 2011:

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