FAST FACTS

XO, ELLIOTT

As a young musician, Pecknold often looked up guitar tabs on the Elliott Smith fan site sweetadeline.net.

SURF’S UP

Pecknold chose his Toyota SUV “because the back window goes down, so it’s easy to put a surfboard in the back.”

SEPTEMBER SURPRISE

Shore arrived with virtually no advance promotion at the exact moment of the autumn equinox. “Catching the end of summer, it just felt like the right time,” Pecknold says.