"If Fleet Foxes' seeming access to a wondrous seam of forgotten folk melodies was what first enchanted you, 'Shore' won't disappoint ... [Robin Pechnold] taps the talismanic power of mythical greatness, namechecking Judee Sill, David Berman and Arthur Russell, sampling Brian Wilson, using Frank Sinatra's touring drum-jit and fela Kuti's organ. Lovely, too, that he has unknown Oxford Uni student Uwade Akhere's honeyed lead-vocals on sun-dappled opener "Wading In Waist High Water" ... The vital spark that graced Fleet Foxes' debut is back".