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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Laying a curate’s egg. The title hints that this wasn’t exactly conceived for mainstream appeal, but He Poos Clouds is still an odd album by anyone’s standards. The string arranger for Arcade Fire and Hidden Cameras, Owen Pallett, aka Final Fantasy, mixes avant-classical chamber music with poetic emoting, which is both as intriguing and as vaguely awful as it sounds. As he shudders self-consciously through his am-dram epics, at times this feels as awkward and embarrassing as being accosted in the street by an androgynous mime artist. Still, you have to admire Pallett for setting out so purposefully to become a classical deviant. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds, released 12 June 06 on Tomlab.
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comment by typedformiles
Sep 27, 2006
Sorry but was this supposed to be an ALBUM REVIEW? A one paragraph summary is the kind of thing I would expect from a journalist at The Sun and not The Times!If anyone is looking for a decent review of this album then go to drownedinsound.com
comment by annafromlondon
Jun 18, 2006
I have yet to hear Owen's recorded output but anyone lucky enough to have caught him at Adem's Homefires festival this year would vouch for the jaw-on-the-floor, eyes-wide-with-wonder, collectively-indrawn-breath magic of his live performance. Dramatic, searing, soaring, swirling loops of fiddle colour, organically created rhythm and supremely confident, aching, raging, kicked-from the lungs chorister vocals - all delivered after he'd leapt straight out of the van after a commute that took him from Switzerland through Germany to London that very day.His quiet but barely contained energy and charisma are something to behold. Catch him if you can, or at the very least, mark him as one to watch. Precocious, prodigious and darn well bloody brilliant.
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