alas i need to sleep now but i've advance-screened A Bloody Morning (of course) and yeah this is everything that was promised and more
― imago, Friday, 22 May 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
the alternate "fire-mare" is incredible
― ufo, Friday, 22 May 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
Alfred Gets Overloaded By New Music
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 May 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link
very very good album as expected. "lewis gets fucked into space" has a really different feeling to that one live in a hallway video from 5 years ago but i still love it
― ufo, Friday, 22 May 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
It's not out yet here in Canada, so am glad a bud of mine passed along the Boomkat listing w/ minute-long clips:https://boomkat.com/products/island-d3d96221-586c-4ecf-a613-4c6e7f364412
― call mr zbow that's my name that name again is mr zbow (Craig D.), Friday, 22 May 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
i love the overlapping vocals on "fire-mare" so much
― ufo, Friday, 22 May 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
this is very beautiful. all the guitar tracks sound like Nick Drake, which I love and thoroughly not something I would have expected.
― Roz, Friday, 22 May 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
0wen can and should correct if me if he comes in here, but I think the two big influences in terms of the presence of guitar on some of the new songs are/were Jennifer Castle and Buffy Sainte-Marie?
― call mr zbow that's my name that name again is mr zbow (Craig D.), Friday, 22 May 2020 03:49 (three years ago) link
new gunna too
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Friday, 22 May 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
"lewis gets fucked into space" is really, really lovely
― Karl Malone, Friday, 22 May 2020 05:07 (three years ago) link
love the spare bass drum
really, really <3
<3 the spare _bd!
― Karl Malone, Friday, 22 May 2020 05:08 (three years ago) link
this fucking rules
― ripersnifle, Friday, 22 May 2020 05:18 (three years ago) link
Yeah, lovely album.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Friday, 22 May 2020 05:23 (three years ago) link
this is extremely beautiful
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 22 May 2020 07:28 (three years ago) link
it's a beautiful, windy summer morning after a sudden overnight storm. feels like appropriate weather.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 22 May 2020 07:37 (three years ago) link
I was about to describe some of the string arrangements (the bits that feel like the ring modulator bit of Lewis Takes Action) as Grisey-esque but then thought twice because I only listen to one piece of music by him and deleted the post... but maybe they are Grisey-esque.
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/owen-pallett-surprise-releases-new-album-island-tells-us-about-the-music-that-influenced-it/
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 22 May 2020 07:44 (three years ago) link
thanks for that, looks like we were all correct in our guesses so far - Nick Drake, Buffy Sainte-Marie :)
video for "A Bloody Morning" from that link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Tvi4v_j0M&
― Roz, Friday, 22 May 2020 08:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfjtI_72VmQ
going back to the orchestral performance of the first part of the album from a few years ago to compare is really interesting
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/island/1509744953
the track-by-track notes in the editors notes section here is fascinating too
― ufo, Friday, 22 May 2020 09:06 (three years ago) link
this is a beautiful record
― devvvine, Friday, 22 May 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
Excited to get this, just watched the video for 'A Bloody Morning' and oof, the feels.
― emil.y, Friday, 22 May 2020 13:37 (three years ago) link
the guitars! It's a perfect May-in-Florida album.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 May 2020 13:38 (three years ago) link
Stunning record, especially the parts that have a hint of Talk Talk.
― kitchen person, Friday, 22 May 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
of all the days to be at home trying to frantically prep a presentation my boss has to give in 2.5 hours (that I just learned of 30 minutes ago) while also waiting on workers to come fix my bathtub ;_;
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Friday, 22 May 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
Snowy Gets Fucked By a Plumber
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 May 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
i've spent all day listening to this record and it's so immense, maybe even better than heartland
― ufo, Friday, 22 May 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
the strings (the playing, and the arrangements) on this are incredible. On "Paragon of Order" I get the sense of Angela Morley or Jean-Claude Vannier; not just on that song, but its opening is the one that's set me on edge.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 22 May 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
Been waiting all day to listen, going to absorb the whole thing during a long walk.
― tangenttangent, Friday, 22 May 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
good music to make gazpacho too
― devvvine, Friday, 22 May 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
how badly i wish for it /that we can be angels and not this bullshit
― devvvine, Friday, 22 May 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
god i cant wait to listen
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
Oh it is stunning. Paragon of Order and A Bloody Morning really hit me on the first listen, but it’s all so immediate tbh. The sequencing, the arrangements, everything is really effective at making you visualise the film of it.
― tangenttangent, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
"paragon of order," jesus
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 22 May 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the kind words, you guys, I really appreciate it :')
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 22 May 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
It's wonderful
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Friday, 22 May 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
Sound of the Engines hits me hard.
I am a wound unhealing.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Friday, 22 May 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
the sequencing is so good
― imago, Friday, 22 May 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
listening now. love how gradually this is building
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 22 May 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
godkiller's alive!
― ufo, Saturday, 23 May 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
I thought they were fucked into space
― maffew12, Saturday, 23 May 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
just cracking it, "Transformer" is lovely.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 23 May 2020 04:08 (three years ago) link
Are there loads of motific references to <i>Heartland</i> in the orchestral arrangements? I can't actually put my finger on them, but it <i>feels</i> like there are.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Saturday, 23 May 2020 08:00 (three years ago) link
ugh square brackets
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Saturday, 23 May 2020 08:01 (three years ago) link
I’m just keeping up with all the albums released this week but I can safely say this one and Moodymann might be the best ones imho. The long hiatus was worth it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 May 2020 10:22 (three years ago) link
― in twelve parts (lamonti),
I haven’t read any interviews or reviews yet so I don’t know if it’s on purpose but every movement here seems to reference his past albums in some way? Movement three would be the Spectrum - Heartland era. The overall feeling I get is that every movement represents a progressive evolution in Owen’s sound. Like a career revision.
I might be off but that was my first impression.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 May 2020 10:33 (three years ago) link
another day of listening to this a lot and it's absolutely my favourite thing he's ever done
― ufo, Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:40 (three years ago) link
me too
also i do like that band versions of two songs are thrown on the end as a nice extra but i entirely agree that the album versions are a much better fit (and i prefer them in isolation too, otherworldly strings 4eva)
― imago, Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:43 (three years ago) link
i really adore the alternate "fire-mare" but it wouldn't have worked as well on the album for the obvious reasons. the alternate "paragon of order" isn't bad but it's missing that melody that comes in at about 3:44 which is my favourite thing on the album version
― ufo, Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:54 (three years ago) link
I'm they/them these days <3
A few people have been mentioning movements and I didn't get it, until I blinked and looked at the track listing and was like "oh the segues look like the beginnings of movements" lol. The album is divided in four but the instrumental segues are not the dividers, the sides are. A: 1-5, B: 6-9, C: 10-13, D: 14-15
The alt versions were originally to fill the fourth side-- I cut three songs pretty early on but hadn't figured out how to keep the album a double. I got really attached to the alt versions in the sequence, it works, it sounds to my ears like "In Darkness" is the final scene and the alt versions are the closing credits
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 23 May 2020 12:23 (three years ago) link
ah were those cut songs from when you were talking about it as being ~70 minutes long? the alt versions do work really well at the end like that, which is rare for those sort of bonus tracks
― ufo, Saturday, 23 May 2020 12:32 (three years ago) link
Yep I know it and love it :)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 4 September 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
figured! bey is important to me.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 4 September 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
Is there still a November vinyl release in the works, or has the ever-roiling shit show of 2020 ruined that too?
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 16 October 2020 07:54 (three years ago) link
I approved a side-split on the vinyl that was wrong. Test-pressing arrived and the track order was bad (because I approved an incorrect tracklist) so we had to get a repress. It's my fault! But yeah shit-show 2020 also has been making it slow, also. Pre-order for vinyl will be up November, delivery in January
I got some videos coming in the next month and a Tiny Desk, that's exciting
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 16 October 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link
I listened to this album an awful lot cycling back from the beach into the city this summer, and I can tell you it is good for that, particularly with a warm pre-storm wind around. Looking forward to putting it on the turntable through winter — and some more videos!
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 16 October 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
looking forward to that tiny desk
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 17 October 2020 03:29 (three years ago) link
Revisting Island while stemming the ebb of a low depression on this foggy DC day.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Thursday, 22 October 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
struggling to think of a more perfect melody than the one in the chorus of "paragon of order"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 1 November 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
it is a beautiful song on a beautiful album imo
― cointelamateur (m bison), Sunday, 1 November 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0_JKdTkjus
here's the tiny desk. really lovely to hear the reworked old songs too, the new arrangements with guitar are wonderful
― ufo, Thursday, 19 November 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
1-5 in my top played tracks on my Spotify round up are from this record.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link
Is https://www.secretcityrecords.com/artists/owen-pallett/ the best place to keep checking for a physical (cd) release? (Other than the man posting himself?)
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
Pre-orders for physical are scheduled to go up next week.. I'll post about it on this thread when they arrive so you don't need to keep checking :)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
Feel very much like I should buy the most lavish bonus-encrusted version available
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:12 (three years ago) link
https://www.dominomusic.com/releases/owen-pallett/island/exclusive-limited-double-lp?fbclid=IwAR2uFkAd63CtyZhpnBcl-QcKfdocOu1_F1zhX3dj_kfulP8l_Gjr-vFll7c Bonus-encrusted version here
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Monday, 7 December 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
New video, too, if you please. Eric Kostiuk Williams is the BEST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny0tDu4qVgI
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 7 December 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
wow that's quite something! both videos from this album have been really so great. did you commission roughly what visual storyline you wanted from Eric (beyond the initial scenario) or was it all his interpretation?
― imago, Monday, 7 December 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
holy fuck i LOVE EK William, what a great collabo! He's a lovely lovely human in the scant time i had meeting him too; so nice to see the two of you connected.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2020 06:08 (three years ago) link
further reference: https://www.instagram.com/kostiukwilliams/
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2020 06:10 (three years ago) link
The first artist I thought of when listening to "A Bloody Morning": John Cale.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 December 2020 10:52 (three years ago) link
I can't wait for you guys to see the second video (on Monday!) it's so, so great, Eric is great. imago, the videos were storyboarded by Eric and I both. The final shot of "Paragon" was the result of the two of us talking enthusiastically about the zoom-out shot on Kylie Minogue's video for "Slow"
Yep, definitely, it sounds like Wrong Way Up. Rollie told me the other day that he thought I picked the wrong first single, and I really agree-- "A Bloody Morning" was always meant to be a "deep cut", a kind of cathartic moment in the middle of a more subdued album. We ended up using it regardless because of how strong the video turned out.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 11 December 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
TSJ covered "A Bloody Morning" and it received the second-highest score of the year! http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=29609
― winters (josh), Friday, 18 December 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
(on Monday!)
oh here it is!! so the three best tracks off Island (imo) all have videos now :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHks5ssvsgI
― imago, Friday, 18 December 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
spectacular obv
TSJ otm, everyone go vote etc
― imago, Friday, 18 December 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
It is extremely moving to read such generous and invested responses to that song, I am tearing up a lot over here
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 18 December 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
TSJ score well deserved!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 18 December 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
I say this every time I see his reviews but I've played soccer with Vikram Joseph and he's the loveliest
― imago, Friday, 18 December 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
Lovely takes on the song, one by one, and very otm (and deserved).
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
Out now streaming, somehow i didn't know Owen did this score!https://pitchfork.com/news/arcade-fire-and-owen-pallett-releasing-her-score-for-the-first-time/
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 March 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
Physical formats of this are out in April.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 28 March 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link
Very happy to be able to pick Islands up on vinyl. It's sounding glorious this afternoon.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 3 April 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
"the box" when
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Saturday, 3 April 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
xpost to myself that obviously should be just Island. I was getting XX confusion.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 3 April 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
the music in On the Count of Three is so good, didn't realize til the credits that it's an OP score
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Sunday, 7 August 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
I heard a tiny instrumental snippet in a NPR bumper (aka 'button') and spent a couple minutes trying to figure out where it came from. After determining the music was from this album I relistened to all of it again. It's as brilliant as I remembered it being -- but now all the songs are stuck in my head 24/7, causing every thought and feeling to be filtered through meloncholia. Sleeping is also rather difficult.
― V/R\V/R\V/R (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 31 August 2023 07:59 (seven months ago) link
But damn songs like Transformer and The Sound Of The Engines...
― V/R\V/R\V/R (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 31 August 2023 08:01 (seven months ago) link
yeah, this is their best, i firmly believe. if they're fine with being ranked, lol
― imago, Thursday, 31 August 2023 08:51 (seven months ago) link
they should stop working on bad movies and do another album!!!!!!!
― imago, Thursday, 31 August 2023 08:52 (seven months ago) link
Wonderful concert tonight, my first time seeing them live in over 14 (! fuck !) years. Old faves aside, the tracks from Island really do shine live, "Fire-Mare" especially, brought me to tears!
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Thursday, 16 November 2023 22:05 (five months ago) link