Owen Pallett -- In Conflict

Sez the man on Twitter:

Video for The Riverbed by Eva Michon and stars my uncle Jim. Lyric video for On A Path by Steve Kado and stars some things around my house

Plus, this article:

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/listen-up-will-owen-pallett-win-an-academy-award-this-sunday/

Holy shiiiiiiit "The Riverbed" is fucking incredible

^^^^

Fuck me that's AMAZING.

Just listened to The Path and my head is really full of conflicted and OMG, do I listen to this with proper respectful Serious Ears, or do I just give in to the overwhelming temptation to just lay back and go into ~full-on squealing fangirl ladyboner flapping~ because not to give into the latter feels like a dishonest expression of my experience of the music and my excitement over it. But to do so in any way would be REALLY. SERIOUSLY. AWKWARD. around here.

But mostly, y'know, just "this is too full of amazing sounds for me to intellectually process how great it is" at the moment.

Hot damn.

awesome song and video. uncle jim has a great look!

WAIT TIL YOU LISTEN TO THE RIVERBED HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK

hE'S SO GOOD AT MUSIC

Oops caps.

No, I'm sorry I can't do this, because one half of my head is going "oooh, listen to those waves of distortion, interesting production choices there" and the other half is going "ALKDSFJAJA ;LDKF A;DFJ AKLDSFJ A;KDJF DJAOIDJFM LKDJFKLAJF;LAJ SJK FK;AJ DSJKFGNA KFJ OMGOMGOMGOMGMGOGMGOMG MOAR MOAR MOOOAARRRRRR" and it's hard to balance these feelings with any degree of objectivity.

objectivity is overrated, especially with regards to first impressions

My ability to even *can* is entirely too compromised right now. This is just truly awe-inspiring music.

Now I'm going to back off this thread before DL shouts at me for making any comments about how cute Owen's haircut is.

Sod objectivity. Sometimes visceral, emotional reaction is absolutely fine. Objectivity is a lie.

(It is a very cute haircut.)

Kidding! So excited to hear the rest of the album now.

OP is magic. Fantastic songs.

On first listening, I love the arrangement (dense but not overcrowded) on "Riverbed" (which is an amazing song in other ways as well), and I'm really excited for the full album.

OMG I love Owen for putting his Mox Jet in a video <3 <3

These new songs are very pleasing. Wish it was May 12th already!

he keeps getting better

i be going to the Glasslands show in Bklyn

Yeah, I'm enjoying these. I'm excited. I played Heartland to death.

holy fucken shit 'the riverbed' is extraordinary

'on a path' also very very good but...my word

I actually like "On a Path" a little more so far.

continually topping himself, tbh. didn't think i could be hit in the feelings more than I was by Heartland and...well, yeah.

^^this. I still play Heartland regularly, cannot wait to play In Conflict to death over the next decade or so.

I gave these links a listen on my phone this morning which was a terrible injustice. Just now I've played both on cans without the clips and yes, this is brilliant. I fear YT is squashing the sonic quality, but yeah I love both of these and I love the clips too.

It's very nice of Owen to release this just before my birthday when I have the week off to decorate and bike ride.

And go to gigs.

thanks for the new display name, Alex!

Bwahaha, A+!

Better than continually popping yourself... ;)

Holy shit @ "The Riverbed!"

I think the thing I love most about all your work Owen is how *immediate* the beautiful melodic lines are, they stick in my head right away and stay there happily. It is making me more enthusiastic than ever to keep firing up my own kboards/gear and keep writing music.

Awesome interview:

http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9358-owen-pallett/

New song and new video.

http://youtu.be/vr_SbrFIuKA

This album is sounding so good. Looks like it might have been pushed back to May 26th now.

Def my favourite of the new songs.

Yeah I love this one.

This just came up on Facebook.

The album release date for "In Conflict" has been pushed back to May 27th. This is due to a backup at the pressing plant; Record Store Day was a tall order this year. We will be selling CD and vinyl copies of the album at all May tour dates, prior to the "street date".

Agree that this is the best song of the three. Just another month to go.

all of these songs are great. i think the riverbed is my favorite although i am still a bit irritated that we never learn what happens between uncle jim and the young toughs

I am just kind of in awe of the arpeggios. It's that kind of True Faith era New Order trick, of having this gorgeous, bubbling arpeggio, but then at the top of the filter sweep, it bursts into this flourish of violins. It's like the aural equivalent of a fountain. Very lovely, I fall for it every time.

whole album is good btw lads

argh i want this album sooner

Yeah I've had a chance to hear the whole thing -- it's a beaut.

wow that's fabulosu

it mangled my spelling w/its beauty

cannot wate

Just looking into pre-ordering this. Apparently there will be a double vinyl version with three extra songs that don't appear on the regular vinyl or the CD. Think I'm going to have to go with that.

http://www.dominorecordco.us/usa/albums/05-02-14/in-conflict

it's all happening!!! excited as shit, and for remixes/remasters too.

Ilx pre-covers one of our own is on the cards ;)

well, fuck me into space!! 2018 looks better all the time

I am beyond excited for this one. I actually revisited In Conflict last month, playing it a lot, and it only made me more hungry for new Owen stuff.

owen produced this, and plays on one of the songs, "self-help": https://tomberlin.bandcamp.com/album/at-weddings-2

self-help is my favorite after one listen but it's all really good. i'm bad at musical references but it's generally acoustic, sometimes reverbed out, sometimes like grouper but not always.

i love owen p so much

i enjoy the empty space in "february", too

someone i almost married
is doing that this month
and i'm ignoring my reading and living like a ghost

Thanks for the heads up, this is very good.

"i am not afraid" is my theme song this week. what a good album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfjtI_72VmQ

just discovered that a recording of Songs From An Island from March last year was uploaded in October. loving this and excited for whenever the album emerges

I wish someone out there would tell us when the heck this is coming out!!

I heard a rumour about next January but the source was pretty sketchy

Maybe your source was me, but if not, lemme corroborate. :) At least it's what Owen said after the concert in Calgary. I guess the current state is pre-release PR planning and the like. To say I'm hyped is an understatement. The new material has a real strong emotional charge to it, that's for sure.

I wonder if this is a way one could find out

Wondering the very same... Stoked though obv.

hadn't seen this show from 2015 online before - with band guys matt and rob + extra strings

would help to post the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbDJylzAFuA

just watched this a couple of weeks ago. daaaaaaaaaaaaamn

<3 <3

I've been absolutely stanning the emerging Westerman this year, so how come this lovely bastard of an album slipped through my net four and a half years ago!?

On A Path, oh my days, oh my days. <3

I've just been listening to this again this morning for the first time in ages and it's hit me like a ton of bricks. My god, The Riverbed :(((((

Also everything i've heard of Westerman so far I've loved, especially Confirmation.

Any news of Island?

got a good pair of headphones for really cheap, fanciest pair i've owned and a small desktop DAC/headphone amp....anyway this is such an amazing fucking *recording* just stunning sounding

like it's not square enough to get there but it should totally be one of those records that audiophiles use to test systems

When I taught recording and engineering, I used "The Riverbed" for frequency-recognition ear training practice and tests.