Live music review: Fleet Foxes, Cork Opera House

The dress code may be palaeontology grad student, and the facial hair straight outta Red Hook, but Fleet Foxes showed an old-fashioned ability to connect with their audience last Tuesday night in Cork Opera House.

The Seattle-based five piece, who specialise in baroque harmonies with a guitar underlay — think Big Star at a slightly statelier speed — were terrific value as they hammered out the highlights from their three albums — Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues and the new release, Crack-Up, which came out in May.