
Wading in Waist-High Water
The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2022
Summary
Featured in The New Yorker and Rolling Stone As Recommended in the Buzzfeed Holiday Gift Guide
“There is something quite moving about seeing these fifty-five songs collected and assembled this way. Themes of family, friendship, love, destiny, loss, nature, and honest living bridge all of the albums and form the core set of concerns of this body of work. At the same time, you can see the evolution of the minds and hearts at work behind the lyrics.” ― Brandon Taylor
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781953534446 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1953534449 |
| Author: | Robin Pecknold, Brandon Taylor |
| Publisher: | Tin House |
| Imprint: | Tin House |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 448g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 156mm x 222mm |

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Critics Review
Serves as a footnoted guide to the band’s catalog.–Vulture
“Distills the music down to its emotional core.“—BuzzFeed
“Serves as a footnoted guide to the band’s catalog.:—Vulture
“A perfect gift for Fleet Foxes fans or lovers of the craft of indie folk songwriting.“—Consequence of Sound
“Illuminating… . Part memoir, part instruction manual, and part philosophical exploration. And an unexpectedly moving reading experience.“—The Adroit Journal
Robin Pecknold
Robin Pecknold
Robin Pecknold is an American singer-songwriter best known as the principal songwriter and vocalist for Fleet Foxes. With Fleet Foxes, he has recorded four studio albums: Fleet Foxes (2008), Helplessness Blues (2011), Crack-Up (2017), and Shore (2020). He has been nominated for many awards, including a Grammy for Best Folk Album and for Best Alternative Music Album, and has won numerous international awards. He was born in Seattle, Washington, and lives in New York, New York.
Brandon Taylor
Brandon Taylor is the author of Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. He is also the author of the national bestseller Filthy Animals, for which he won The Story Prize and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction.
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