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canadian indie band final fantasy (aka owen pallett) performs at schuba’s in chicago 10.12.07

owen is a brilliant, classically trained violinist whose music is simply magical (in fact, his last album “he poos clouds” was intended to “illustrate” the 8 schools of magic from “dungeons and dragons”); this video is a good demonstration of owen’s on stage “looping” process

http://www.myspace.com/ffinalffantasy

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The band from Wales sat down with Jian to talk about the album ‘Hold On Now Youngster’ as well as perform ‘Death to Los Campesinos! ‘ live in Studio Q.

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Album: Return To The Sea 2006

Born from the indie-pop ashes of the favorite underground band The Unicorns in 2005, Return to the Sea is the debut album of a great new Canadian band (Montreal to be exact). In fact there has been a lot of good music coming from Canada lately (Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, New ographers, Feist, etc.) and Islands are riding that wave. Where The Unicorns (and a lot of other similar bands from the indie rock tree) were chaotic, lo-fi experimenters in the stranger side of indie-pop, Islands are a much more mature and emotional band, adding a variety of new instruments to their repertoire, some unusual to what you’ve heard from other indie-popsters (i.e. strings, accordions, upright bass, etc.) for a much more adult and often whimsical sound. You don’t have to be a fan of The Unicorns or indie-pop in general to like this album , all you need is two functioning ears and two hands to clap along.

What really stands out for me in this album is the ludicrous and often surreal lyrics like “You can Scoop out my brain /Shape it into an ear and then tell me your pain” –just par for the course in this album. The most appropriate way I can describe these guys is that they’re strangly lovable and lovably strange. It’s too bad that this band doesn’t get more exposure and recognition.

Much thanks to Equator Records for releasing this album. ISLANDS ARE FOREVER!
Go buy the rest of their albums too.

My personal favorites are
Rough Gem
Volcanoes
Swans (Life After Death)

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my friends’ band, very talented, toronto, Canada.

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canadian indie band final fantasy (aka owen pallett) performs a “medley” of three, full-length songs at schuba’s in chicago:

“i’m afraid of japan”
“hey dad”
“the cn tower belongs to the dead”

features overhead projector animation by stephanie comilang

http://www.myspace.com/ffinalffantasy

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Orange Quarter’s newest music video “U Turn.”

Check out www.orangequarter.com for more information on Orange Quarter!

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Album: Return To The Sea 2006

Born from the indie-pop ashes of the favorite underground band The Unicorns in 2005, Return to the Sea is the debut album of a great new Canadian band (Montreal to be exact). In fact there has been a lot of good music coming from Canada lately (Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, New ographers, Feist, etc.) and Islands are riding that wave. Where The Unicorns (and a lot of other similar bands from the indie rock tree) were chaotic, lo-fi experimenters in the stranger side of indie-pop, Islands are a much more mature and emotional band, adding a variety of new instruments to their repertoire, some unusual to what you’ve heard from other indie-popsters (i.e. strings, accordions, upright bass, etc.) for a much more adult and often whimsical sound. You don’t have to be a fan of The Unicorns or indie-pop in general to like this album , all you need is two functioning ears and two hands to clap along.

What really stands out for me in this album is the ludicrous and often surreal lyrics like “You can Scoop out my brain /Shape it into an ear and then tell me your pain” –just par for the course in this album. The most appropriate way I can describe these guys is that they’re strangly lovable and lovably strange. It’s too bad that this band doesn’t get more exposure and recognition.

Much thanks to Equator Records for releasing this album. ISLANDS ARE FOREVER!
Go buy the rest of their albums too.

My personal favorites are
Rough Gem
Volcanoes
Swans (Life After Death)

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Every month, London Public Library, Ontario, Canada supports local teen talent by providing a free venue for independent bands to offer a public show. This is a couple of songs from the January 2009 performance by o Time Travel.

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