ON WINGED FEET: Fleet Foxes drummer J. Tillman will release his seventh album, “Singing Ax”, which he recorded in just three days with audio engineer Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago, Ill. Their Bated Breath called Tillman’s 2009 release, “Vacilando Territory Blues”, one of the top albums of year, and the song “Firstborn” one of the best. Tillman followed up that record with a second in 2009 called, “Year In the Kingdom” — packed with banjo, recorder, organ and strings. But Tillman’s label, Western Vinyl, says the new record won’t feature much accompaniment. A few songs will include a mellotron and drum machine. The label goes on to say the lyrics are predominately third-person narratives. We’ve got one song here for you to download, courtesy of Western Vinyl. “Three Sisters” is a hauntingly stark track, lovely in its ghostly simplicity. This is a song for desperadoes, with hellhounds on their trail: “Leave everything you have there / For beasts of the field and birds of the air / To trample and steal / Three sisters, tell me what you’re called … / The one of none, said the third / As her sisters’ faces turned / And they seemed to forget me / With one of us you must sail / It’s always been and always will.” — David D. Robbins Jr.
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