Has A Good Home

Experiencing an Owen Pallett live show around 2010 was great from a technical standpoint. All the usage of loop pedals building up a song structure is interesting. The problem is that on an album it is not a impressive as at a live performance, having multiple takes. Apart from that it's a method used by a lot of artists (f.e. Andrew Bird). Anyway, the album is ok. The songs are nice, but not outstanding. The violin parts are great, but a more diverse collection of instruments would be better and not all vocals are on the spot. Still it contains a lot of funny and interesting ideas.

Sad boy music to be sad to

Another Canadian I'd never heard of before. A lot of talent here. A little high toned and rarified maybe, and the lyrics didn't really stick with me, though they seemed smart while I was listening to them. Made for a surprisingly sprightly workout. Extra point for being unabashedly non-pop.

Very cool. I'm a sucker for good violin-based indie music. 4 stars.

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: This is the dream of win & regine, Adventure.exe, Library, That’s when the audience died, An arrow in the side of final fantasy, Please please please

Unique sound, with the violin. Was a nice little surprise

Sickly

This nice violin boy sure is nice

4 3

Musically quite pretty, but sorely in need of a better vocalist. A bit soft on the back half. Fave Songs: Your Light is Spent, The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead, This is the Dream of Win & Regine

Interesting… I’m not sure it grabbed me but it was atmospheric and interesting.

Indie pop, classical, baroque pop, art rock, electronic music. Ni fu ni fa.

For a split second I thought somebody submitted a video game soundtrack. Agree with the guy who said this sounds like somebody doing Eleanor Rigby for 45 minutes, but disagree on that being a bad thing. It's a cute album and some of the wackier choices like "An Arrow In The Side of Final Fantasy" being essentially a violin cover of the Super Mario Land 2 space world theme give it heart. No actual Final Fantasy covers though, so like, what even is the point of calling your musical project that. I demand the indie violin version of One Winged Angel.

Really enjoyed the violin but by the end of the album his vocals just grated on me. Somewhere between a 2 and a 3. It’s different enough for me to give it a 3.

You have to look up ‘Owen Pallett’ and then you have to get it off the deluxe edition so you don’t have to have some bs extra songs and by the time you get there it’s fine

I feel like I just listened to 45 minutes of someone ripping off Eleanor Rigby over and over. It was alright (if most definitely not my thing) for the first 5-6 songs, but that was all it did. Every song was nigh-on identical, down to the instrumentation, build, vocal phrasing etc etc. This is the sort of album that I feel bad giving a 2, as the dude is clearly a passionate artist etc etc, but at the same time, that was FAR too bland to get a 3.

Don't get it, the violins were nice

At first I thought this guy was just another indie style musician but then the music got a little weird and a little more sad. After listening I saw he did the scores for Her and for Dream Scenario which makes sense where the oddness came from. It’s not a bad album. The instrumentals are very good, but the style and lyrics are just a bit odd to enjoy thoroughly. 5.6/10

Didn’t really click with me – lots of great instrumentation packed into some complex arrangements, but the LP never coalesced into a satisfying whole. Feels almost confused with so many ideas rather than a cohesive artistic statement

No, sorry. I have just come back from a terrible holiday and I could do without this. I don’t know what it’s for, or who it’s for. Not for me that’s for sure.

a selection of jaunty tunes for jaunty boys.