New album Island out now
Island and Island (Demos) available on 2xLP & CD March 5, 2021
Owen Pallett releases a new video for Fire-Mare, the second part of an animated series by Toronto-based illustrator Eric Kostiuk Williams.As winter descends upon us, we’d like to offer you some warmth, says Pallett. The song is from Owen’s latest album Island out on Secret City Records in Canada, and the video is a follow up to Paragon of Order from earlier in December. Owen describes the two songs as, an extroverted coda to an introverted album.
Watch the video for Paragon of Order (Part 1) by clicking here.
Island will be available in standard CD, 2xLP on March 5, 2021. A special LP bundle is available to pre-order now from Secret City in Canada that includes Island 2xLP and an accompanying limited edition Island (Demos) LP featuring 9 demos.
Preorder the album Island by clicking here.
Over the course of the past few months, Owen has performed an NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, a World Cafe session and a WNYC New Sounds session, all from their home in Toronto.
Almost entirely acoustic, Island begins with 13 darkened chords, and was recorded live at Abbey Road Studios with the London Contemporary Orchestra. The introduction is sound of waking up——alone, and on the shore of a strange land. What follows is a shimmering and luscious orchestral album that draws across the full breadth of Pallett’s discography, from Heartland’s Technicolor to the glittering, fingerpicked guitar that marked Pallett’s first records with their trio, Les Mouches.
Island is about being alive, asking why, and all the most hideous stuff of life. The songs don't divulge the answers. I don't know what's happening next, guys, Pallett warns.
For the first time, Pallett——who has a lifetime of classical training——created an album without brooding over the way it might be performed on stage. This wasn’t easy: Pallett’s initial reputation was founded on their live virtuosity, playing violin for groups including Arcade Fire and the Hidden Cameras, and a solo fiddle and loop-pedal act, under the name Final Fantasy. Pallett’s second release as Final Fantasy, 2006’s He Poos Clouds, was awarded the inaugural Polaris Music Prize.
In addition to Pallett’s Grammy award-winning work with Arcade Fire, Pallett’s commissions have included string, brass and orchestral arrangements for Frank Ocean, Caribou, The Last Shadow Puppets, The National, Christine and the Queens, R.E.M., Linkin Park, Sigur Rós, Taylor Swift, and the Pet Shop Boys. Since the release of ,In Conflict (2014), Pallett has earned an Oscar nomination for their film scoring work on Spike Jonze’s Her, and an Emmy for Sølve Sundsbø’s Fourteen Actors Acting. Their score for Matt Wolf’s Spaceship Earth, a documentary about a crew who spent two years quarantined inside a replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2, is out now.
I grab the hem and lift the fabric over my sweet head, Owen Pallett sang once, years ago. I know what you're looking for / and I'm never gonna give it to you.
Download: Cover (jpg) • Photo (jpg) Credit: Yuula Benivolski
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