Every few years a band comes along that stops you in your tracks. A band whose music is so overwhelmingly beautiful, so emotionally stirring, so utterly beguiling and unique, that you have to stop and catch your breath. Seattle's Fleet Foxes are one of those bands.

Fleet Foxes make such complex, harmonic, 70's inspired folk-rock, it's hard to believe that the band's principle songwriter Robin Pecknold is but a scant 21 years old. Fleet Foxes draw on a variety of influences - gospel, hymns, folk, motown, baroque pop, country-rock - to produce the most outstanding new music you'll hear this year.

Fleet Foxes self-titled debut was produced by Phil Ek, whose many production credits include recent albums by The Shins and Band of Horses.

Fleet Foxes were one of the most talked-about band at this year's SXSW, and certainly the act that picked up the most across-the-board plaudits with everyone from NME, MOJO, Pitchfork & the UK's Guardian newspaper selecting them as the finest new act of the festival and raving about their celestial four-part harmonies and awe-inspiring cosmic country-rock.