Fleet Foxes Share New Song “A Sky Like I’ve Never Seen”: Listen

Fleet Foxes have shared a new song, “A Sky Like I’ve Never Seen,” which features Brazilian singer-songwriter Tim Bernardes. Robin Pecknold wrote it for the Prime Video documentary Wildcat, which follows a British Army veteran and Ph.D candidate as they work toward rehabilitating an orphaned ocelot in Peru. The song was recorded in New York and Amsterdam. Check it out below.

In a press release, Pecknold said:

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.

“A Sky Like I’ve Never Seen” follows Fleet Foxes’ 2020 LP Shore, which picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album. The band played a number of shows with Bernardes in support of the album.

Read the interview “Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold on the John Prine Song He Wishes He Wrote.” Plus, check out the review of Bernardes’ 2022 album Mil Coisas Invisíveis.