Thanks to a co-worker for this partial translation:
"As big of a splash as freak-folk made, ten years after ears turned to the music of Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom, the phenomenon didn’t serve to bring to the spotlight those more entrenched in the scene. In the case of the duo known as the Iditarod, one almost wants to say they arrived a bit too early to jump on the train which, at the time of departure, rapidly took off with the young faces most likely to succeed (because that’s how hypes go). Even so, you can’t ignore the fact that Jeffrey Alexander (multi-instrumentalist and principal composer) anticipated, almost ten years prior, almost everything which would set the profile for freak-folk, namely its tendency to accompany strange and lyrical voices with largely acoustic instruments not at all shy in bringing back the psychedelic marasmus of the 60s and 70s. This is all substantiated in the collection Foxfur and Rarebits, which includes songs recorded between 2000 and 2004 (right before the harp-girl-and-long-beard boom)... This makes up one of the missing pieces to the freak-folk puzzle."
Available on bndcmp - with 5 bonus tracks!
https://jeffreyalexander.bandcamp.com/album/foxfur-and-rarebits-lp-2014
