SO DOPE didnt realize homie did this score, now im going to have to go watch this movie
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for your kind words, I don't care about the Oscars and I'm not a fan of the score or the movie :) but thanks. If I do win tho I'll be 3/4s of a way toward being the lamest EGOT ever, aero and I have a Tony plan for that final stretch
― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
haha I was gonna ask if I should bother watching her
― beef in the new era (wins), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
good luck anyway!
― beef in the new era (wins), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
I don't care about the Oscars and I'm not a fan of the score or the movie
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― lovely cuddly fluffy dope (imago), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
when's Fartland coming out yo
― lovely cuddly fluffy dope (imago), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
oh i am so xposting that comment to tmz now
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
would pay to see a goaty fantasy musical btw
Woo, well done! (Even if you don't care, ha.)
― emil.y, Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:31 (ten years ago) link
I am lookin fwd to that Tony hustle! flaunt it, baby, flaunt it.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
will u score my musical based on parliament's "funkentelechy v the placebo syndrome"?
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
I was trying to find out what the emmy was for and found this:
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards2010 NominatedChainsaw Award Best ScoreThe Box (2009)Shared with:
Win Butler Régine Chassagne
Geez with a nod like that no wonder you don't care about oscar!
― beef in the new era (wins), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
― lovely cuddly fluffy dope (imago)
Was trying to stop myself from asking this but yeah is this coming out in the near future? Very excited to hear it.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 January 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
May 13. I think we're releasing a video and/or lyric video next week
― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 16 January 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
Just in time for my birthday woohoo.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
i like how when you try to click on owen's name it takes you to cadillac.com
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included)
Hooray!
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 January 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
Good news on both counts!
And congrats! I had assumed it was an Arcade Fire nomination, didn't realise it was more specific than that!
― Jill, Thursday, 16 January 2014 23:38 (ten years ago) link
Only a handful of albums of which, when listening to them, I'm still equally amazed and feeling blessed that somehow it exists in my lifetime and I got to know and love it. Heartland does it to me every single time.
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 9 October 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
same
― josh, Sunday, 9 October 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
i delayed listening to "in conlfict" for such a long time because i worried it would disappoint if it didn't measure up to "heartland." i ended up liking in conflict even more as it turns out, but this is still a special record.
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Sunday, 9 October 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
<3 I'm working on a follow up to this album called Island, but I'm having to rewrite much of it because some of the lyrical material was ah too raw for me to manage, excising certain stuff that I don't want following me around. So far, it's long and slow and there are no electric instruments on it
― fgti, Sunday, 9 October 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
I had a conversation with my brother yesterday about "the best album in our adult lives" and he insisted on aerial by Kate bush and I said heartland, ys or sound of silver, very much knowing the audience. He loved ys but hadn't heard the other two and has spent the day texting me about how fantastic they are. Man I fucking love heartland and in conflict.
― plums (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 9 October 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
That's fantastic news, can't wait but by all means take your time <3
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 9 October 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
random fgti sightings is in my top 5 reasons of coming here everyday
btw dud it is my dream if you played your music with my city's youth orchestra, putting this out in the universe
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Sunday, 9 October 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
should say dude
there are days, like today, when I think "The Great Elsewhere" is the best song ever made. I've been listening to this song obsessively for nearly a decade and it still doesn't make any sense to me on a musical level - it starts in a weird time signature and then changes to 4/4(-ish?), but it's not clear how exactly because that opening loop is still going at the same tempo in the background, and there's so many notes in the verses, and the lyrics have no business being as catchy as they are, and it all works, and I don't understand how you're doing this all on your lonesome.
I can't wait for Island. (And will you stop by Southeast Asia at some point? I would like to see an fgti play live at least once in my lifetime, also I will take you out for food.)
― Roz, Monday, 18 December 2017 07:08 (six years ago) link
I just listened to this album for the first time last week, working backwards from In Conflict (which is excellent). Great on the first two listens, I want to keep digging deeper into it. "The Great Elsewhere" is definitely the song that got my attention the most so far - I also am a bit amazed at how it works out but I feel like analyzing it too much may ruin the magic
and also want to second Owen coming to Southeast Asia!
― Vinnie, Monday, 18 December 2017 08:24 (six years ago) link
"The Great Elsewhere" is the furthest I went with the look-at-me aspect of looping that I'm trying to remove myself from. Glad you like it, I like it too, and I'm determined to write at least one maximalist song a year-- I feel embarrassed by songs like those but I recognize that they're kind of necessary, I guess
The rhythmic pattern was recently discussed on a music podcast out of Spain, and I posted the solution to the rhythm (it's 11/16 + 11/16 + 10/16, which adds up to 32/16 = 2x 4/4).
pic.twitter.com/I5btfAFGdp— sea turt (@owenpallett) December 10, 2017
There's a new one on Island called "A Bloody Morning" which is kind of the same nautical theme and musical cleverness and wordy lyrics, Greg Fox is drumming on it and just sounding like a genius
I got him to do a bunch of stuff in studio but I only ended up keeping him on one song. I had the idea that I could treat his blast-beat and make it sound like "the weather" but it just sounded like blast-beat and I'm not ready to make that record yet lol
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 18 December 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
Also, the beach scene in "The Great Elsewhere" is maybe-obviously inspired by Pigafetti's account of Magellan's death on the island of Mactan:
So we continued to retire for more than a good crossbow flight from the shore always fighting up to our knees in the water. The natives continued to pursue us, and picking up the same spear four or six times, hurled it at us again and again. Recognizing the captain, so many turned upon him that they knocked his helmet off his head twice, but he always stood firmly like a good knight, together with some others. Thus did we fight for more than one hour, refusing to retire farther. An Indian hurled a bamboo spear into the captain's face, but the latter immediately killed him with his lance, which he left in the Indian's body. Then, trying to lay hand on sword, he could draw it out but halfway, because he had been wounded in the arm with a bamboo spear. When the natives saw that, they all hurled themselves upon him. One of them wounded him on the left leg with a large cutlass, which resembles a scimitar, only being larger. That caused the captain to fall face downward, when immediately they rushed upon him with iron and bamboo spears and with their cutlasses, until they killed our mirror, our light, our comfort, and our true guide. When they wounded him, he turned back many times to see whether we were all in the boats. Thereupon, beholding him dead, we, wounded, retreated, as best we could, to the boats, which were already pulling off."
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/magellan.htm
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 18 December 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
Oh cool, you restored the Greg Fox track!
― Cardi Acs (imago), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
Greg Fox! That's awesome.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
Yeah, there were three with Greg. I was always gonna keep that one, but I nixed the drums on "Perseverance Of The Saints" and took "Oh Bishop" off the record.
I deleted the entire 3rd side of the original album, three songs got cut. Partially because they weren't fitting the mood of the rest of the record, partially because those three songs were written during a really shitty period of my life that I didn't want to memorialize, partially because the album was working better at 50 minutes instead of 70, and partially to reduce the overall cost of my orchestral session which was already "an insane thing to spend money on in 2017"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 18 December 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
All fair! Oh so is Oh Bishop the one you said I'd freak out over? I'll wait for the special edition ;)
― Cardi Acs (imago), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
lol we had this exact conversation on the In Conflict thread
― Cardi Acs (imago), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
Ah really? lol. Yeah, "Oh Bishop" was the one. I did track the orchestra on it, rather loosely, but usably, just like "OK we'll run it a couple times before the time's up", but it's just not fitting the rest of the record. I might finish it, I probably should
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 18 December 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
Could always submit it to the next ILX comp haha
Would like to make abundantly clear that I am also stoked for the tracks that don't have Greg Fox on them
And a shout-out for the arrangement on that Kiran Callinan song, not least as it brought you together with Weyes Blood who is just the best. Can't wait for any future mingling of ways there...
― Cardi Acs (imago), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
I admire Fox for branching out, he seems adventurous. Which is also why it sounds cool that he's on your record obv, but it doesn't give away - for me - what his drumming sounds like :) His solo record from this year was pretty good (even though I admit to not having given it enough time).
LJ otm about the Callinan song. Also, the Sarahbeth Tomberlin EP fucking rocks. She's great. I don't mean to pry, but did she just out of the blue ask you: could you produce this? As it seems a really good match, but I don't know how these things come about.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 December 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link
Sarahbeth came to my shows, we became Facebook friends, and then one day she sent me an iPhone demo of "Tornado" and I was blown away. She kept sending more songs and they were awesome. I spoke to somebody else about recording her, but that person fell through, so I offered to do it myself. She came down and we recorded it in two-and-a-half days. She's amazing and she just signed a contract with a larger indie for three more records, and she wants me to keep working with her, which rules.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 18 December 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
Awesome hearing about the making of Island, can't wait to hear tracks with or without crazy time-signature drumming
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:19 (six years ago) link
re "The Great Elsewhere": thanks for the explainer, Owen! It's still crazy to me that the whole thing works.
need to listen to the Sarah-Beth Tomberlin record - I keep forgetting to check it out.
― Roz, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 02:22 (six years ago) link
fascinating to hear about how The Great Elsewhere works, it's my absolute favourite. still very excited for Island
― ufo, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 02:42 (six years ago) link
I don't know a lot about time signatures, but is "The Riverbed" doing the same thing rhythmically? I once tried to cut off the start and end of that song so that it would loop (it is so awesome that I could listen to it all day - and I have), but I could never get the edit points right.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 08:55 (six years ago) link
Threw on the A Swedish Love Story EP (which I'd forgotten I'd purchased on vinyl until I spotted it among my records earlier today) while doing some writing this afternoon and was reminded what a lovely little collection of songs it is. Understandably overshadowed by his other 2010 release, I still think that "A Man With No Ankles" might be my favourite OP song of this era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUeynkQPg8s
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Monday, 4 March 2019 03:37 (five years ago) link
Just want to chime in to say ‘me too!’ - I recently rediscovered this EP and have been enjoying it very much. Played that exact song on the radio a couple weeks ago!
― christopher.ivan, Monday, 4 March 2019 10:09 (five years ago) link
<3
New album will be out this year, and I’m going in to get the Final Fantasy albums remastered and repackaged with bonus stuff, the Totally Legal edition
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 4 March 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
yayyyyyyyyy
― Roz, Monday, 4 March 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
Huzzah! <3
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 March 2019 13:36 (five years ago) link
a welcome recess from hyperreality <3
― ninthyoung, Monday, 4 March 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
listened to in conflict this morning, one of my favorite parts of the album is the piano break between the verses of “i’m not afraid” that sounds like an rpg save point
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 4 March 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link