fill my stomach with your singing.

You know how when you play Grand Theft Auto for several hours and then immediately try to get in your car and drive somewhere, the result is disorientation, death-defiance, and danger? Such is the peril of reading too many similar blogs. You begin to think that a band or artist is extremely well-known and that even the uttering of their name is platitudinous at best. But the world is much much larger than that, and maybe the four (tops) people who read this blog are not in touch with any others. Hey. Roll-call of the readers. If you read this, simply comment, "here" or "present." The point is that not nearly as many people as I may have thought are in such elevated anticipated of the June Thirteenth release of He Poos Clouds as I'm so inclined to believe.
Owen Pallett has played violin and arranged strings for Picastro and The Arcade Fire, and has scored one videogame, two operas, three movies, and now two solo albums under the stage name Final Fantasy. His first record was written and recorded over two weeks at the tail end of 2004. It's called Final Fantasy Has A Good Home and it gained much more attention than was expected. We're now a month and a half away from the release of his second, He Poos Clouds, and the indienet kids are too excited for words. Both albums found homes on Tomlab, which you may know through Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, P:ano, Xiu Xiu, and The Books (to name[drop] a few).
Has A Good Home is about forty-five minutes of hushed violin and string arrangements worthy of your favorite art house film score battered with Pallett's back-of-throat nectar-filled vocals. But just like the videogame Final Fantasy (the following is speculation as I've never actually played the game), there are many more hidden treasures lying on and underneath the surface.
Pallett's perfectionism and apparent tendency for self-sabotage has led him to go much further with He Poos Clouds. And truthfully, I'll withhold saying anything further about it until I hear more. But rest assured that I want to hear more. Here are a few tidbits about the new record that may interest you: recorded entirely in a church; contains only a string quartet, piano, harpsichord, organ, vocals and percussion; other than an interlude and conclusion the songs are about the school of magic (abjuration, conjuration, divination, enchantment, evokation, illusion, necromancy and transmutation).
Here are some highlights from Has A Good Home, some great songs from January's Young Canadian Mothers 7", and some reasons to look forward to June 13th. I highly recommend "Song Song Song."
Enjoy.



Final Fantasy's "This is the Dream of Win & Regine"
"That's When the Audience Died"
& "Please Please Please"
from Final Fantasy Has A Good Home

Final Fantasy's "This Is The Dream of Emma & Cam"
& "Peach, Plum, Pear" (Joanna Newsom)
from Young Canadian Mothers

Final Fantasy's "Song Song Song"
& "Many Lives -> 49 MP"
from He Poos Clouds