Future Falling Album Leaf, The SKU: EGR626014 Barcode: 5051142011855 26.00 £26.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Eastern Glow Recordings Released Date: 19th May 2023 Buying Format: 2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Jimmy LaValle’s The Album Leaf has spun from solo outlet to full band and back in its nearly 25 years. His acclaimed catalog spans releases for labels such as Sub Pop, City Slang, Relapse, and others. He also composes music for film and television, scoring over 20 projects (narrative features, documentaries, and TV series) since 2009. The cinematic sensibilities of The Album Leaf were present from the beginning. His 1999 debut introduced the start of a signature sound: melodic and meditative electro-organic soundscapes constructed with guitar, percussion, Rhodes, and field recordings. His seventh full-length LP, and first since 2016, arrives in 2023 via Vancouver’s Nettwerk Records. FUTURE FALLING finds LaValle working with an array of musicians, shaping slightly darker, more spacious, and synth-driven songs with contributions from Bat For Lashes, Kimbra, and many others. The music registers a shade darker and more synth-driven than most moments in his acclaimed catalog, a bridge between shadowy, cerebral terrain and dreamy precision pop, where softly percussive frameworks meet shimmering sound design and emotive instrumentation. LaValle sees the construction of FUTURE FALLING as less conventional than past work. Contributions were done remotely with a “throw everything at it” mindset, making LaValle the arranger of layers from all over: drums, synths, horns, violins, voice, and more. LaValle created a pastiche of these layers and elements; in some cases even moving vocal takes to new tracks entirely. Without the in-the-room dynamics, he had more time to experiment, adding and subtracting ad infinitum. The album opens on “PROLOGUE,” an evocative, slow-building instrumental that rides a pattern into a symphonic sea of static. Keys and horns glide atop the rhythmic pulse of “DUST COLLECTS,” setting the contemplative scene for “AFTERGLOW,” the record’s most pop-minded performance. Here Kimbra, the Grammy-winning New Zealand singer-songwriter, renders a striking recollection of past love as percussive elements shimmer and swirl. A plaintive piano line moves throughout “Cycles 19.9” encircled by light ambient washes, both a valley between two peaks and a powerful composition in its own right. “Future Falling” follows; with origins tracing back to 2015, the track embodies the full sonic journey LaValle has taken. All the hallmarks of The Album Leaf — melodic builds, vivid sprawl, tonal shape-shifting — assemble to a blissful finish. For the next stretch, “Cycles” begins with a uneasy Rhodes loop that builds and erupts into a wall of texture paving its way into “Give In,” where LaValle models a movement that begins subtle and measured before curving up with skyward, percussive bursts (“Stride”) and settling back down to the album’s back-half centerpiece, “Near” featuring the acclaimed English artist Natasha Khan aka Bat For Lashes. “Do you feel me near?” she sings into a mist of widescreen synths and soothing, distant drum beats as if searching through the dark. Artist Album Leaf, The Genre Leftfield / Experimental Label Eastern Glow Recordings Buying Options 2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Format 2LP , Coloured Vinyl , Gatefold Sleeve Condition New Country UK Track Listings Prologue Dust Collects Afterglow (featuring Kimbra Future Falling Breathe Cycles Give In Stride Near (featuring Bat For Lashes Epilogue Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Album Leaf, The and more from Leftfield / Experimental View Product Quick View Album Leaf, The Between Waves Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Relapse | 1LP Released 26th August 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Album Leaf, The Between Waves £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Relapse SKU: RR73461 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Album Leaf, The In A Safe Place Rock And Pop | City Slang | 1LP Released 13th November 2015 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Album Leaf, The In A Safe Place £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: City Slang SKU: SLANG50092LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th November 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rafael Toral Spectral Evolution Leftfield / Experimental | Moikai | 1LP Released 23rd February 2024 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rafael Toral Spectral Evolution £22.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Moikai SKU: M14 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Red Twist & Tuned Arrow : Christy Doran / Fredy Studer / Stephan Wittwer Red Twist & Tuned Arrow Jazz | ECM | 1LP Released 6th February 2018 £8.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Red Twist & Tuned Arrow : Christy Doran / Fredy Studer / Stephan Wittwer Red Twist & Tuned Arrow £8.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ECM SKU: NN96335 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th February 2018 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Phill Niblock Nothin to Look At Just a Record Leftfield / Experimental | Superior Viaduct | 1LP Released 28th November 2013 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Phill Niblock Nothin to Look At Just a Record £22.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Superior Viaduct SKU: SV033 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th November 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ilhan Ersahin' sIstanbul Sessions Solar Plexus Leftfield / Experimental | Nublu | 1LP Released 13th July 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ilhan Ersahin' sIstanbul Sessions Solar Plexus £19.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Nublu SKU: NUB0040LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fire The Hands Leftfield / Experimental | Rune Grammofon | 1LP Released 26th January 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fire The Hands £19.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Rune Grammofon SKU: RLP3197 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th January 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Moundabout Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones Folk | Rocket Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th May 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Moundabout Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones £23.00 Genre: Folk Label: Rocket Recordings SKU: LAUNCH245 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th May 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View That Fucking Tank A Document of the Last Set Leftfield / Experimental | Gringo Records | 1LP Released 21st October 2013 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders That Fucking Tank A Document of the Last Set £14.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Gringo Records SKU: WAAT056LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st October 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hood Cold House Electronica | Domino | 2LP, 45rpm Released 20th February 2012 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hood Cold House £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Domino SKU: REWIGLP85 Formats: 2LP, 45rpm Released Date: 20th February 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Julianna Barwick Will Leftfield / Experimental | Dead Oceans | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 6th May 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Julianna Barwick Will £16.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Dead Oceans SKU: DOC110LP-C1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 6th May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Deafkids & Petbrick Deafbrick Leftfield / Experimental | Rocket Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th September 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Deafkids & Petbrick Deafbrick £20.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Rocket Recordings SKU: LAUNCH195 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th September 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Leftfield / Experimental Start again
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