Harmonizing Seattleites Fleet Foxes have won the first Uncut Music Award, which is the British magazine Uncut‘s attempt to get in on the “awards given out by magazines” game that pretty much every other periodical in its home country engages in on a yearly basis. The judges’ bromantic rhapsodizing about the band’s self-titled album includes phrases like “beautiful vocal creation” and “echoes of all kinds of indigenous American music, but also African music and even medieval strains” and “one of those records that will stand the test of time,” so, uh, why don’t you just use this space to talk about why they’re right. Or wrong! I don’t know, that album did not do it for me at all, but judging by the other albums on the prize’s shortlist I’m probably in the very wrong target demographic for this particular prize. [Uncut]
