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Like pretty much every band on Earth, there was a lot of waiting around going on in 2020 for The Parson Red Heads. The completion of their fifth studio album,
After some weekend teases with posters hanging in Paris flaunting news of a new Fleet Foxes album, the truth has arrived. Fleet Foxes indeed have officially announced their fourth album
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