Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains (live on Nigel Godrich's ＂From the Basement＂)

What this video is

Recorded in 2008 at BBC Maida Vale Studios for Nigel Godrich's From the Basement series — a live music web/TV series that ran from 2006 to 2009, inspired by The Old Grey Whistle Test and conceived as an antidote to the artificiality of standard music television promotion. Fleet Foxes were at the apex of their debut breakthrough, having released the Sun Giant EP and their eponymous debut LP on Sub Pop to…

Why it matters

Documents Fleet Foxes at the precise moment of their cultural emergence, performing pastoral indie folk rooted in Appalachian harmonic traditions, baroque pop layering, and psychedelic folk. The From the Basement format, with its unedited single-take structure and absence of audience or production…

The director

Nigel Timothy Godrich (born 28 February 1971, Westminster, London) is an English record producer, engineer, and musician. He produced Radiohead's OK Computer (1997) and all subsequent Radiohead albums, winning a Grammy for Best Engineered Non-Classical Album…