Owen Pallett -- In Conflict

It approaches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_wHDduVIxQ

ok that chord-bend about 15 seconds in. riding a giant contraharmonic artpop unicorn to valhalla!

*time passes*

this is so, so exciting, if only Owen knew how excited I am

If only we knew how to get in touch with him!

"This video is private.

Sorry about that."

I'll describe it to you, from memory. Basically it starts with a gospel-choir chanting the names of famous basketball players in melismatic polyphony, until the sound of typewriters slowly subsumes all that came before, accompanied by Owen's frantic screaming. Then there's a giant guitar bit that sounds like the Flaming Lips

hahahahahaha

giant guitar bit that sounds like the Flaming Lips

Owen's been listening to too much Deafheaven :(

so what you're saying is more evolution than revolution

Trailer now back so enjoy the basketball chanting.

Sounds pretty amazing.

May 13th is too far away.

wow that's really fun sounding
way faster pace than i expected

Looking forward

eno!

damn this is gonna be epic

full speed ahead

when was the last time eno sang?

this was released a year ago
http://youtu.be/A6WIbvwcVUg

yikes

I'm sorry. Some remedy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Sj1aAWLr4

Tracklist, from the Domino site. Some live dates in May announced as well.

1. I Am Not Afraid
2. In Conflict
3. On A Path
4. Song For Five & Six
5. The Secret Seven
6. Chorale
7. The Passions
8. The Sky Behind The Flag
9. ---> (1)
10. The Riverbed
11. Infernal Fantasy
12. Soldiers Rock
13. ---> (2)

Several live versions are available on youtube

tour dates etc

http://pitchfork.com/news/53855-owen-pallett-announces-new-album-in-conflict-featuring-brian-eno-plus-tour/

No conflict on my end - super psyched! I love how Eno is dipping his toes back into working with younger folks (Eno appeared on the last James Blake record, too) rather than just sticking with boring-ass U2 and Coldplay all the time.

^^^

TWO NEW SONGS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt8wR8CagQo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMr51844ybw

Trying that first embed properly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt8wR8CagQo

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.

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

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.