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For this month's Beautiful Music we have Fleet Foxes' Drops In the River, from their 2008 album Sun Giant.
From the mysterious opening sounds of a cello string being dragged across a mandolin, to the tight harmonies sung with raw emotion, this song has the golden quality of late-summer sunlight, evoking images of lonesome countrysides and road-worn travelers.
Like most Fleet Foxes songs, the lyrics are cryptic, and perhaps even nonsensical. However, when you listen closely, it's easy to imagine a story to explain it. What that story might be depends entirely on the listener, which is one of the reasons this group has become one of my favorite artists over the last year.
And now, without further ado, I give you the song in question, Drops in the River.
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-Emmarayn Redding
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