Owen Pallett -- In Conflict

God willing, I'm seeing this plucky young Canadian tonight!

DM me if you need guestlist!

Just did so - THANKS!

out of the us after this for the rest of the year, eh? bummer, but bon chance.

"The Phone Call" is lovely

ya, I never expected a Kraftwerk cover from OP but it's rly great

mmmm those dissonances

listened to this again today. still as amazing as i remember. love the falsetto in the chorus so much.

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

like, is that a good song or is that a good song

different album but stoked to see this ~

http://thequietus.com/articles/20034-brian-eno-favourite-records-interview?page=12

He's scoring an upcoming HBO documentary I worked on. Excited to hear it.

cried on the train while listening to this record last week. i was sick which occasions a lot of public crying but still

Ugh, Song for Five & Six. Grateful I'm the only one in the office today and that my coworker keeps a box of kleenex on her desk.

am growing impatient for thee mighty lp5!

It's coming along really crazily well, to be honest. The few people I've been keeping in the loop on it have been liberal with their superlatives. It is really just a week or so away from being done but it won't be out until Q1 2018.

I'm gonna remix and remaster Has A Good Home so that it's something I can bear to listen to, and remaster He Poos Clouds also, and re-release both with b-sides and stuff, hopefully within the next year or so. Also I have a couple of OSTs (M Blash's "The Wait" and Anton Corbijn's "Life") that I'm gonna have out soon, they are both acceptably listenable music objects. The soundtrack to "Life" especially is really nice I think

New album is called Island by the way and it's a narrative sequel to Heartland, there is a song called "Lewis Gets Fucked Into Space", it's got Abbey Road strings and Greg Fox is on it also

I approve of all of this, not that you need my approval.

yaaaaaaay

lewis gets fucked into space!!!!!

Looking forward to all this!

Absolutely yes!

"Lewis Gets Fucked Into Space"

Holy shit, this is gonna be awesome.

really looking forward to this, the performance of Lewis Gets Fucked Into Space that was posted on facebook quite a while ago was really nice

"Lewis Gets Fucked Into Space

Holy fuck yes!

Your albums have consistently marked huge occasions in my life so far. Every single one a soundtrack to a massive turning point: scales flipping, stones turned, truths unearthed. It's like your music and I are growing up together. Which is so odd, on first thought. But it feels so intimate, intrinsically, even though I don't even know you apart from some messages on this board. I don't know you but the distance leaves enough space to fill in the gaps, grants me leverage and allows me to entice, seduce, and also be removed from people I cherish dearly. I made love to 'Heartland' several times, and did so too to 'In Conflict', though that was when it ended between us. And that's ok; it had to end. End 'In Conflict' was the perfect soundtrack yet again.
It is your music that bridges distances between me and people who I play your music to, people who would never ever hear your music otherwise but through me, people I have left behind in my life now yet know they will occasionally play you and think of me, of our brief yet heated and memorable encounters. Your music does this. Think about how strong and powerful that is.

So whenever it is when the new album drops, I can only look forward to it soundtracking and accompanying me further along the as of yet unknown road. Up yours <3

ahhhh can't wait!!

fuck me into spaaaaaaaa a a a aa a a aaa a-aa-aaaaa-aaace

lewis. gets. fucked. into. space.

into it

Getting me hyped for this, Owen.

Yeah this is going to rule. Greg Fox too! Holy shit

Great great news.

Thanks guys. The record is wholly acoustic, no electric instruments, no synths, no effects except a plate reverb here and there.

Greg recorded three tracks. I only kept one for the album. Another one that I ended up cutting off the album, it was sounding like Nightwish with blast beats, it wasn't fitting the album at all, but I recorded the expensive strings for it anyway and did think at least once "man LJ is gonna love this one"

:D

I'll wait for the outtakes and rarities comp, would imagine you've got a decent one in store!

Fully acoustic is intriguing as well. Roll on next year...

Stoked!

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