Has Mark Kozelek ever written a truer or more succinct description of his creative process than "Ceiling Gazing"? "Layin' in my bed ceiling gazing/ Wide awake with jet lag from Australia," he sings on the standout from Perils from the Sea, his new collaboration with Album Leaf founder Jimmy Lavalle. As a churchly organ repeats an insistently ascending phrase, Kozelek describes the stack of mail that awaited him after a tour, including "a wedding invitation from a new young relative I never even... Read More »
The Album Leaf's In An Off White Room has a soothing sparseness to it, giving it a strange mix of natural beauty and otherworldliness. On this four song EP, beauty seems to be the true preoccupation, and each of the songs merge into something that is delightfully more atmosphere than music... Read More »
To all but forget the existence of Sub Pop in the wake of Seattle's glory days is to degrees an embarrassing admission to make, but through bands like The Album Leaf its one that makes for far more of an enjoyable rediscovery... Read More »
San Diego's Jimmy LaValle (also found in Tristeza and The Black Heart Procession) accepted offers from his mates in Sigur Ros and Mum to travel to their native Iceland and record his latest LP, 'In a Safe Place'. The Album Leaf is the alias LaValle has used for his instrumental solo work since 1999.In a Safe Place is a mood dependent album, an introspective account of a city-dwelling American finding shelter in the pleasant, spacious terrain of a strange foreign land... Read More »
The "safer place" is Iceland, where California native Jimmy LaValle (The Locust, Black Heart Procession) recorded this, his third solo release since 1999's An Orchestrated Rise to Fall. Mostly instrumental, LaSalle's compositions are mellow and minimal, alternating between the guitar- and piano-based, but always interspersed by atmospheric chimes and the occasional violin, producing a maritime feel... Read More »
The Album Leaf has been Jimmy LaValle's baby now for 10-odd years (he formed the band as a side project to his group at the time, Tristeza) and A Chorus of Storytellers is already his fifth long-player. LaValle handles the songwriting duties while surrounding himself with collaborators (members of Sigur Ros to The Black Heart Procession), all the while mastering the playing of a dozen-or-so instruments, vocals and programming duties... Read More »
This is going to be the first 5 star album/single that I have reviewed for Music-News.Com. In fact it is slightly ironic that I only have this four-track album sampler to review. I guess strictly speaking it is an EP! Anyway that aside, In a Safe Place is the third full length from The Album Leaf (Alias Jimmy LaValle). Featuring members of Sigur Ros, The Black Heart Procession, Mum and Jimmy La Velle himself, this was recorded over a three month period in Iceland late last year... Read More »
Five albums in, The Album Leaf's Jimmy LaValle has taken the risky decision to utilize his touring band on this latest album, making for a much more collaborative effort. Whereas he previously played everything on studio releases, he has opened The Album Leaf up and acted as a conductor to the group of musicians. Mixed by Sigur Ros' Jon Birgisson in Iceland, LaValle can rest easy in the knowledge that his new, open attitude has reaped dividends... Read More »
Jimmy LaValle's career as the Album Leaf took off when he started opening for Sigur Rós (Jonsi produced prior albums), and since then, he's been offering a lower-stakes, more intimate take on what they've sort of perfected: a twinkling poptronica that could be arguably cast aside as new age if it weren't cut with just enough post-rock and IDM textures... Read More »
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live chats with bands, streaming videos, and even an attempt at a social network. From 2000-2003, they released limited edition EPs from artists such as Bright Eyes and the Rapture as part of the Insound Tour Support Series. Insound helped launch the careers of bands like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, selling their self-released early records before they were easily available anywhere else. The people behind Insound also ran the record label Tiger Style, releasing music from Les Savy Fav, Ted Leo, Low, <span>the Album Leaf</span>, American Analog Set, Ida, and more. Insound Shutting Down Read More »
the 2014 album Perils from the Sea on Caldo Verde Records. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle - What Happened to My Brother (MP3) Mark Kozelek is known as the dour voice behind long-running projects Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters. Jimmy LaValle is best known under the moniker <span>The Album Leaf</span>, his electronic-based solo project. In 2013, the two combined forces for the full-length Perils From The Sea, released via Kozelek's own Caldo Verde label. Imagine a depressing (yet beautiful) version of The Postal Service. The collaboration began with nothing more than the artists being mutual fans. In an interview ... that were a lot of fun." Neither artist has spoken of a follow-up, but with results as inspiring as today's Song of the Day, we surely hope they won't continue the Postal Service's path of just releasing one amazing full-length, then calling it quits. Both are busy men: Kozelek is currently on tour overseas with his Sun Kil Moon project, and LaValle is finishing up a new <span>Album Leaf</span> full-length, due out later this year. You can follow <span>The Album Leaf</span> on Twitter and Facebook, while Kozelek (unsurprisingly) eschews social media. Song of the Day: Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle - What Happened to My Brother Read More »
another 900 show up on yellow wax. The release will come packaged in a gatefold jacket, along with a lyric sheet insert. Caldo Verde has staggered CD and vinyl releases before, with Kozelek having unveiled a limited-edition vinyl release of 2013's Perils from the Sea collaboration with Jimmy LaValle (a.k.a. <span>the Album Leaf</span>) at the beginning of the month. The vinyl pressing has already sold out. Kozelek will also be issuing the concert set Live at Biko next Tuesday (July 1). While billed as a Kozelek solo set, it features tracks from Sun Kil Moon's Benji, including "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes." Read More »
his sick wife in a hospital, Kozelek tells every one of his stories in his signature weather-beaten mutter under the breath. If it were any other way, it wouldn't be Kozelek. Benji comes on the heels of last year's three Kozelek LPs, including the excellent Perils From The Sea with Jimmy Lavalle (<span>The Album Leaf</span>). But it seems that Kozelek saves his most confessional work for the Sun Kil Moon moniker - a hypothesis that Benji supports with painstaking and deeply effective strides. Each one of its songs tells a separate story about the pains of life and love and learning to be a better human being, one Read More »
Kil Moon et al., has at least 3 albums out in2013, featuring differentcollaborations of one sort or another. They're all pretty great listens, but if I had topick one for you to test-drive, it'dbe Perils From the Sea recorded with <span>Album Leaf</span> multi-instrumentalist JimmyLavalle. Thealbum pits Kozelek's prolific songwriting/storytelling with hypnotic lo-fi sound to createa dreamy, how-long-did-I-zone-out-on-this? feel. The trick is Kozelek's lyrics: stream-of-consciousness paired withrealism and simplicity thathas you hanging on each line of verse. My personal favorites are "Ceiling Read More »
Later this summer, Mark Kozelek, the mordant/funny/depressive driving force behind Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon will release his third album of 2013, after the covers record Like Rats and <span>the Album Leaf</span> collab Perils From The Sea. This one is a full-length collab with Desertshore, the band led by former Red House Painters guitarist Phil Carney; Kozelek's served as a member of the band for their last two albums, but this time around, he's leading it. The album is simply called Mark Kozelek & Desertshore, and we've already posted its "Mariette" video. Yesterday, for Father's Day, Kozelek Read More »
hook-up seven seasons in the making, then during PLL's sexy-and-sad deception sex between Rosewood schemers Toby (Keegan Allen) and Spencer (Troian Bellisario). Scandal The song: David Holmes, "No More Time Outs" The scene: Though Liv (Kerry Washington) and Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) basically had eye sex to <span>The Album Leaf</span>'s "The Light" (their love theme), the pols first pressed flesh to Holmes' instrumental sizzler. Queer As Folk The song: The Aloof, "So Good" The scene: Pittsburgh's gay Lothario Brian (Gale Harold) had been around the block more than a few times before he took just-out Justin (Randy Read More »
Asheton, on their second and best yet post-comeback album, featuring among a few "jokey shock-novelty songs... some surprisingly poignant ballads." Grab all of these and more, including the debut of LA band Hands and a beautiful collaboration between Red House Painters / Sun Kil Moon frontman Mark Kozelek and <span>The Album Leaf</span>'s Jimmy Lavelle, at your favorite record shop today. And remember, every day is Record Store Day! !!! - Slyd (MP3) from THR!!!ER on Warp Adventure - Happiness (MP3) from Weird Work on Carpark Records Akron/Family - Until The Morning from Sub Verses on Dead Oceans Cayucas - East Coast Read More »
surprisingly smooth and song-oriented dance-party THR!!!ER. • Cayucas's warm, sunny indie-pop hookfest Bigfoot. • Beacon's pretty indie-R&B sighfest The Ways We Separate. • Colin Stetson's drone-skronk sax odyssey New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light. • Sun Kil Moon and <span>the Album Leaf</span>'s depressive full-length collaboration Perils From The Sea. • Akron/Family's wooly bugout Sub Verses. • Os Mutantes' English-language excursion Fool Metal Jack. • Guided By Voices umpteenth reunion album English Little League. • The Melvins' reliably deranged covers album Everybody Loves Sausages. • Read More »
is available over here, and Iggy Pop and The Stooges are previewing their first studio album James Williamson has played on since 1973's Raw Power, called Ready To Die here: please don't be bad. Perils from the Sea, by Mark Kozalek (Sun Kil Moon) and Jimmy LaValle (<span>Album Leaf</span>) is also streaming over here. Remix singles abound this week: Atoms for Peace have remixed Four Tet's 'Pyramid', Unknown Mortal Orchestra gives Lindstrom's 'Rà-àkõ-st' a crack while Dirty Projectors try their hand at one of Phoenix's latest singles, 'Entertainment'. Local two-piece Mean Girls have dropped an EP, featuring Read More »
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