Artist: J. Tillman
Album: Vacilando Territory Blues
File Under: New Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Recommended if You Like: Fleet Foxes, Iron & Wine, Bon Iver, Nick Drake, Ryan Adams, Great Lake Swimmers
Featured Track: “First Born”
While he may be known best as a member of the Fleet Foxes, J.Tillman is an accomplished solo artist with quite an impressive body of work under his belt. He continues to release material under his own name and has often been compared to Nick Drake, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and Elliott Smith.
Vacilando Territory Blues is his fifth album and features other Fleet Foxes members Casey Wescott and Christian Wargo. And you can hear their influence in the music – or vice versa. The album is beautiful and does sound a lot like Fleet Foxes, without the multi-layered harmonies. Firstborn is probably the most reminiscent of his side project work with the now famous Seattle band. He does pull out some full band, blues-tinged tracks like “New Imperial Grand Blues” to keep you on your toes, but most of the album is quiet and sparse which bodes well for late night listens.
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Great choice. Tillman’s been quietly releasing achingly gorgeous music for a while now. Kudos to Autumn Tone for picking him up and re-releasing his back catalog.
had no idea fleet foxes members were doing side projects until this week, and I thought it was just Robin’s “White Antelope”.
Thanks for the hookup, I absolutely love it.
Hi Mike! Yes, actually Fleet Foxes would qualify as a side project for J. Tillman. A very successful one at that.
Actually, depending on how you look at it, Fleet Foxes would be the side project. Tillman’s been releasing solo records for years.
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