"Heartland" is the most recent album from Owen Pallett, aka Final Fantasy. Not entirely 100% sure what moniker he's using now. I'm assuming that Sony (or whoever owns big Final Fantasy) may have put a kibosh on that namesake...or else it was a preemptive change...or maybe he just got bored. I don't know. What i do know is that the album is really good. Owen is a fantastic violin player, and one hell on an orchestral arranger as well. Part Arcade Fire (of whom he is a sometime member), part Sufjan Stevens, part chamber pop, "Heartland" does something its awesome predecessor (2006's "He Poos Clouds") couldn't do...make itself accessible to people who aren't snooty music nerds while remaining off the radar. And that's a big step.
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