Photo courtesy of Laura Musselman, via Stereogum
Between touring and working on the album following Fleet Foxes’ eponymous debut, Robin Pecknold, the band’s frontman, has been spending some of his minimal spare time working on various side projects.
According to a recent interview with Pitchfork, these side projects include “fake” film scores, recorded with former Blood Brothers bassist (and current Past Lives keyboardist/guitarist) Morgan Henderson. Pecknold said that these recordings were a relaxing departure from the format he’s been working in for the last couple of years.
“Some songs are harder to turn into finished songs than others, but when you’re just writing music and you’re just writing melodies, and some of it’s just rhythm stuff, that’s all it needs to be when you’re just writing to an image.”
Pecknold has also formed a band, Rainbow Fang, with his sister (and local music journalist) Aja. Pecknold said in his Pitchfork interview that he and some other friends are helping record and develop songs that Aja has been working on for a while. They have six songs finished, and there may even be a 10″ released at some point.
Fleet Foxes are in the early stages of recording their new album. It will possibly, tentatively be released in late 2010.
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