Fleet Foxes - He Doesn’t Know Why

Seattle five-piece Fleet Foxes have been both hot-tipped by the critics and adored by music fans and the adulation is duly deserved, because when they’re good, they’re great.

‘He Doesn’t Know Why,’ the latest single off their album, is placid and heavenly like a particularly heady high filled with rainbows and cavorting unicorns in green meadows. It’s so melodic that you feel like you’ve heard it before because humming along feels quite natural. During the last 30 seconds the song veers off with a strange adage of piano music with an eastern twist, tying the song off neatly and efficiently.

Laid-back, but thoughtful and deeply emotional, Fleet Foxes strike us a bit like Belle & Sebastian, but more 60s folk than Scots twee.