{"id":147062,"date":"2025-11-21T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/147062\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:42:09","slug":"fleet-foxes-cover-elliott-smiths-angel-in-the-snow-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/147062\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleet Foxes Cover Elliott Smith&#8217;s &#8220;Angel In The Snow&#8221;: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The soundtrack for the new Amazon-made Christmas movie Oh. What. Fun. is <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2479421\/fleet-foxes-st-vincent-weyes-blood-more-cover-christmas-songs-on-oh-what-fun-soundtrack\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">speckled with indie stars<\/a> like Fleet Foxes, St. Vincent, Jeff Tweedy, Weyes Blood, Sharon Van Etten, Madi Diaz, Uwade, Andy Shauf, and Lorely Rodriguez (Empress Of). A lot of the artists have recorded popular and traditional Christmas songs for the project, but Fleet Foxes opted for a different approach. Robin Pecknold&#8217;s band has instead covered &#8220;Angel In The Snow,&#8221; a cold-weather-coded track from Elliott Smith&#8217;s posthumous album New Moon. It&#8217;s kind of meta given that Fleet Foxes&#8217; own &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/lede-v2.stereogum.com\/9151\/new_fleet_foxes_white_winter_hymnal\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">White Winter Hymnal<\/a>&#8221; has also been annexed into the yuletide canon by playlist curators and <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/1715036\/watch-the-worlds-most-popular-a-cappella-group-cover-fleet-foxes-in-the-woods\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pentatonix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pecknold shared this statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Angel In The Snow&#8221; has always been one of my favorite songs by Elliott, one I\u2019d always listen to around the holidays, so it was a huge joy to make this for such a sweet film. It wasn\u2019t even my idea! Took me back to handing out &#8220;RIP Elliott&#8221; flyers at my high school graduation in 2004. Elliott Smith forever.<\/p>\n<p>Below, hear the cover and the original.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. What. Fun. premieres on Amazon Prime on 12\/3, which is the same day the soundtrack album drops. Pre-order it <a href=\"https:\/\/ohwhatfun.lnk.to\/soundtrack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The soundtrack for the new Amazon-made Christmas movie Oh. What. Fun. is speckled with indie stars like Fleet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-147062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}