Owen Pallett - Keep the Dog Quiet

Off his new Heartland LP, this marks the first album Owen Pallett has released under his own name. His previous moniker was “Final Fantasy” - a tribute to the video game series that had the unfortunate side-effect of making him hellish to google for.

In addition to his solo stuff, Pallett has a healthy number of side gigs arranging the strings for Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear, The Mountain Goats, and more. When he goes on tour by himself, though, he still manages to sound like multiple players thanks to the same clever looping technique as Andrew Bird (as seen in this wry cover of a Mariah Carey song).

The downside to posting a song from this album is that starting with the third one, they all tend to flow into each other in a way hard to get from any one excerpt. So here’s the second song, which is pretty self-contained and fairly traditional to Owen Pallett’s previous work. The rest is more out there and awesomer!