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2005, Sub Pop
Jimmy LaValle, perhaps known best for his work in contemplative dream-rock outfit Tristeza and San Diego's The Black Heart Procession, began releasing delicate, progressive instrumental work as The Album Leaf in 1999 (the name comes from a Chopin piece). After years of labor-intensive touring and tinkering with complex tracks in his cramped bedroom studio, LaValle was repeatedly offered a rare invite from Icelandic phenoms Sigur Rós and Múm to record his newest solo opus in their Mosfellsbaer studio. He finally accepted, and flew overseas to compose and record "In a Safe Place." With the addition of vocals (absent from previous Album Leaf releases) from The Black Heart Procession's Pall Jenkins, Sigur Rós' Jon Thor Birgisson, and LaValle himself, the songs on the new record are chillingly delicate and more pop-based than ever before. "In a Safe Place" masterfully negotiates the spaces between minimal electronica and neo-instrumental rock.
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Where do you find a safe place as delicate as sonic vibrations, iridescent shades of tone, beauty that's so soft yet strong? This. Such composition that has always been a warm blanket on many a winter night, fitting considering the Icelandic roots placed during production of this album(read liner notes); you will not find such an ease transition as this album flows from one solid track to the next.. each carrying undertones of sadness to nostalgia.. to the quiet yearning of happiness. If you want an album to fill in those moments of lulls, of in-between, of anything.. then by all means, purchase this.. I promise upon every listen it will always sound... new.
Where do you find a safe place as delicate as sonic vibrations, iridescent shades of tone, beauty that's so soft yet strong? This. Such composition that has always been a warm blanket on many a winter night, fitting considering the Icelandic roots placed during production of this album(read liner notes); you will not find such an ease transition as this album flows from one solid track to the next.. each carrying undertones of sadness to nostalgia.. to the quiet yearning of happiness. If you want an album to fill in those moments of lulls, of in-between, of anything.. then by all means, purchase this.. I promise upon every listen it will always sound... new.