St Ann and the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, New YorkEven without his band’s trademark harmonies, Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold lights up this bleakest of winters
Despite its billing – “a very lonely solstice” – this live stream doesn’t start lonely at all. Dressed all in white, a masked, socially distanced choir fills the pews of this gothic-arched
New York church. These angelic figures are members of the Resistance Revival Chorus – female and non-binary singers whose aim is to motivate and uplift.
The camera eventually focuses on Robin Pecknold, prime mover of Fleet Foxes. Seated in the nave, playing acoustic guitar, his mask rides up into his eyes as he joins in with the choir. Wading In Waist-High Water is the opening track of Fleet Foxes’ fourth album, Shore – one of many to feature a watery metaphor. The union of voices here is underplayed, consolatory.