Today, Fleet Foxes returned with a new single titled "A Sky Like I've Never Seen" featuring Brazilian musician Tim Barnardes. The blossoming folk tune was written for for the documentary Wildcat that's out December 21. The film, directed by Melissa Lesh and Trevor Beck Frost, details the story of young veteran Harry Turner whose life is changed after venturing into the Amazon. He meets Samantha Zwicker who runs a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center and begins to care for an orphaned baby ocelot.
Fleet Foxes songwriter and vocalist Robin Pecknold detailed his motivation for the track: “I was inspired by how the film employed unconventional means to arrive at something universally moving, and was struck by all the collisions inherent in the film’s conceit—between species, between hemispheres, between individuals, between the psychological and the natural. In hotel rooms and in borrowed studios, on time stolen from a world tour, I put this song together. It was an honor to be asked to make a song that could serve as an end-cap to this unique and affecting story and to collaborate with Tim again."
Listen to "A Sky Like I've Never Seen" below.
