FLEET FOXES (1st) SCARCE ORIG US SUB POP 2008 EX+ LP with LIMITED EP & INSERTS.

	£		24
	$		32

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Artist or Band: FLEET FOXES

Album Title: Fleet Foxes

Producer(s): Phil Ek

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Sun It Rises; White Winter Hymnal; Ragged Wood; Tiger Mountain Peasant Song; Quiet Houses; He Doesn’t Know Why.

Side 2: Heard Them Stirring; Your Protector; Meadowlarks; Blue Ridge Mountains; Oliver James.

Side 3, Sun Giant EP: Sun Giant; Drops In the River; English House.

Side 4, Sun Giant EP: Mykonos; Innocent Son.

Label/Format: Sub Pop with matt, smooth surfaces.

Label Conditions: All four very clean, fresh and attractive with only two or three light, fine and faint spindle marks and no wear around the hole area. Side one has a little crinkle near the hole in manufacture.

Catalogue Number: Album – SP 777 / EP – SP 781

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.

Warps or Lateral Movement: Assume all records I offer have no significant warping or lateral movement to cause sound or tracking issues. All should play fine even on budget turntables.

Weight of Records: 128 / 165 grams.

Country of Manufacture: United States

Rarity: Scarce on vinyl and including the limited edition EP.

Original Year of Release: 2008

Matrix Nos: SP - 777 - A 17591.1(3) / SP - 777 - B 17591.2(3) / SP - 781 - A 17523.1(3) / SP - 781 - B 17523.2(3)

Run-Out Groove Etchings: GOLDEN J6 / GOLDEN / GOLDEN / GOLDEN

Musicians: Robin Pecknold – lead vocals, guitar; Skyler Skjelset – lead guitar; Nicholas Peterson – drums, percussion, vocals; Casey Wescott – keyboards, vocals; Craig Curran – bass, vocals.

Brief Info: This was the American folk-rock band Fleet Foxes debut album that was issued to considerable acclaim and sold quite well – but mostly on the digital formats. This an original American pressing on Sub Pop that includes the extra 12 inch EP known as Sun Giant. Hardly played and with lovely clean sound and gorgeous gatefold cover plus inserts.

Cover Grade and Format: EXCELLENT(++): an unlaminated gatefold format with matt, smooth surfaces. Printed and made in the United States, includes the two round corner inner sleeves and two insert sheets.

Cover Front: Gorgeous artwork, fresh, clean and highly attractive and virtually as-made bar the o dd tiny tip crease.

Cover Back: The odd slight trace of rim impression apart from what is a very thick and heavy EP, there is little else to fault with any blemishes minor, few and faint.

Cover Inner Gatefold: As-made.

Top Edges: Both straight, flat and flush with barely any hint of wear.

Bottom Edges: Again, virtually as-made.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Mostly sharp with any thickening minuscule. Record enter on either edge as both are open.

Spine and Text: Very solid, thick and robust. Straight with no compression and folded square, so the edges meet up very closely together and parallel. The text, surface and folds barely rubbed at all.

Corners: Any tip rubs tiny and light, excellent shape mostly retained with just the odd small minor tip crease.

Cover Summary: A very strong all-round example of this highly attractive cover, one that could prove very difficult to find much better. This beautiful item should please many, if not most collectors.

The Inner Sleeves: NEAR MINT: two plain white unlined inners with rounded corners. Both almost as made with no window or edge splits, clean and barely creased.

The Large Mustard Colour Insert: EXCELLENT(++): being ultra critical, little to fault bar minor gentle natural crinkle. Clean, fresh, untorn with no writing, a purely text insert printed on one side only.

The Small Graphic/Text Insert: EXCELLENT: arguably better. A faint stain on plain white back and mild crinkle. Little else to fault on this one.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT(+): arguably better. A very fine visual pair that are very clean with equally fine shine and one solidly pressed, with the EP heavily pressed. A copy with minimal plays on all the evidence with any surface marks or traces very light, wispy and faint as seen critically under bright light. No penetrating stylus scratches, viewed in average room light, hardly anything even registers. Visually super records that should please many collectors.

Album Played For Grading: Yes. [I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness – I play from the beginning to end via clinically revealing equipment, all listed further down.]

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This very highly regarded album plays even above it’s high visual grading with hardly anything to fault to the main album, and any surface sound minimal, brief and faint on the EP first side. Offering strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear – sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound. Any surface sounds are minimal indeed and this is a very clean pressing with no tracking issues* or inherent pressing noises. Few available copies will outperform this original American Sub Pop pressing I feel sure. Both channels are clean and sharp, I am certain this record has been played very lightly and has been generally well stored and carefully handled with in a non-smoking environment. Nothing of any real note spoilt my pleasure when play-grading these lovely records. They will prove very difficult to find significantly better and can be strongly recommended.

* As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2 grams. Records are a ‘contact’ format, and few will avoid the odd minor sound blemish.

I am one of the most established sellers on Ebay, trading since 2001 and offering the finest records I can find. I pride myself on offering a variety of genres to keep my site as interesting as possible. I will rarely offer any record that falls below a true Excellent grading, unless its of a certain rarity which will justify offering a lesser grade. I try, to the best of my ability to describe as accurately and as honesty all elements of the items I offer for sale. You may notice I only submit records quite sparingly on Ebay as I Play-Grade every record I offer in their entirety – also on higher-end equipment – not just bits to guess a grade – visuals alone do not always tell a true story. I will try to mention any defects or flaws no matter how small that I notice to be fair as possible to any interested collector – I am very fussy and my buyers have the right to be too. Every record I offer, whether it be a common or rare item deserves the same respect as far as I am concerned and will be treated the same – just because an item is rare does not always mean it’s good. I get just as much pleasure offering a relatively common record in near mint condition as the real rare items. All the pictures I use for your guidance are the item being offered with no digital enhancements. Room light factors can make things vary sometimes, that is hard to control, especially in winter. I hope the item below is to your liking – any questions can be emailed and I will do my best to answer you. I am enthusiastic, and have a fair degree of knowledge about many genres and I promise quality items. Please assume all records I offer have NO jumps, sticks, major warps or writing on covers or labels unless clearly stated to the contrary. Thanks for your interest and Good luck – MIKE.

Deck: Linn LP12/Hercules/Cirkus with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge (tracks at 2 grams). Amps: Naim Supernait 2 with Project USB phono stage and Tellerium Black interconnects. Speakers: B&W 805 Nautilus (bi-wired with Tellurium Black terminated cable) with REL subwoofer. All records I offer on Ebay are cleaned on a professional Nessie vacuum machine before play-grading for the cleanest and best possible sound and will include a brand new lined inner and protective cover too. Pictures taken with a Nikon D7500 DSLR Camera.

PACKING – THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.

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Payment Conditions:

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My Guarantee: If any winning bidder is not satisfied with their purchase I will offer a complete refund if the item is returned in the same condition is was sent e.g. as per the listing pictures.

SOME GENERAL GUIDES TO WEAR AND CONDITIONS TO HELP YOU DECIDE

My Use of Description Terminology: Surface Marks = Superficial, usually light marks, hairlines or light scuffs that rarely sound. Scratch = a needle mark that goes below the record’s surface, some will sound, some will not, my play-grade will inform. Original = a record that has been pressed with the first label design which does NOT necessarily mean a very first pressed record. First Pressing = A record that I believe or know to be a genuine very first pressed record. I do not claim to always know for sure, and that’s why I state the stamper and matrix numbers if at all possible, for those who claim to know what they all mean, the information is there for the collector to decide. I prefer to use terms like ‘Early Copy’ rather than ‘First Pressing’ if I am not totally sure. Surface Sound = Mild, light sound, usually light crackle or similar. Distortion = Break up of the actual sound caused by groove wear or damage from a chipped stylus – the most undesirable form of unwanted sound, vintage mono records were the most prone to this happening but not exclusively so. The symptoms of distortion are high frequency clipping, moderate constant crackle or an echo type sound quality. Violin, piano and vocals are most prone to groove-wear distortion. Feathering = Fraying or softening of the entry edge of a cover. Covers with feathered entrance edges are more likely to have had the actual record inserted and removed more than a non-feathered, sharp-edged cover which are always far more attractive. Set Off, a printer’s term for dark ink leaving mild residue on pale or white ink when rested upon. e.g. when a gatefold cover has black ink closed against white, this can leave some black residue on the pale area – this is mostly unavoidable or course.