View basket “The Invisible Light: Spells” has been added to your basket. 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 Hauschka 2.11.14 Leftfield / Experimental | City Slang | 1LP Released 22nd June 2015 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hauschka 2.11.14 £16.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: City Slang SKU: SLANG50081 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd June 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Mark Kozelek & Sean Yeaton Yellow Kitchen Electronica | Caldo Verde | 1LP Released 14th June 2022 £10.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Mark Kozelek & Sean Yeaton Yellow Kitchen £10.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Caldo Verde SKU: nn244196 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th June 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Nisennenmondai #N/A Leftfield / Experimental | On U Sound | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 1st April 2016 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nisennenmondai #N/A £23.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: On U Sound SKU: ONULP131 Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st April 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Anneli Drecker Revelation For Personal Use Leftfield / Experimental | Rune Grammofon | 1LP Released 19th May 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Anneli Drecker Revelation For Personal Use £19.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Rune Grammofon SKU: RLP3191 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View tetema Geocidal Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Ipecac | 1LP Released 16th February 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders tetema Geocidal £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Ipecac SKU: IPC167LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th February 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bug Vs Earth, The Concrete Desert Leftfield / Experimental | Ninja Tune | 2LP, Includes 12" Released 12th June 2017 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bug Vs Earth, The Concrete Desert £22.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Ninja Tune SKU: ZEN239 Formats: 2LP, Includes 12" Released Date: 12th June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois S/T Leftfield / Experimental | Planet Mu Records Ltd | 1LP Released 4th May 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois S/T £16.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Planet Mu Records Ltd SKU: TIMESIG008S Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Prefuse 73 Rivington Não Rio Leftfield / Experimental | Temporary Residence | 1LP Released 11th May 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Prefuse 73 Rivington Não Rio £19.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Temporary Residence SKU: TRR239LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch An Attempt To Draw Aside The Veil Leftfield / Experimental | Sacred Bones Records | 1LP Released 8th February 2019 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch An Attempt To Draw Aside The Veil £23.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Sacred Bones Records SKU: SBR218LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Henry Cow Leg End Leftfield / Experimental | Rer Megacorp | 180g, 1LP Released 8th December 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Henry Cow Leg End £19.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Rer Megacorp SKU: RERVHC1LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 8th December 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Leftfield / Experimental Start again
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