Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

EGR626014


Colour

Violet

Colour details

Neon Violet

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Housed in Gatefold Sleeve

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-05-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5051142011855


Total Cap

Violet LPx2

Artist

The Album Leaf

Genre GB

Post Rock

Label GB

Eastern Glow Recordings

THE ALBUM LEAF has been making its mark as a soft-spoken innovator steadily and surely since 1999. One year after forming the influential San Diego instrumental group Tristeza, songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Jimmy LaValle founded THE ALBUM LEAF, a solo studio project turned full-fledged live band. The diversity of *THE ALBUM LEAF’s* music is second only to the diversity of the music that has inspired LaValle through the years – the artist has named everything from German Ambient/Pysch bands like Can, Cluster and Harmonia to traditional mariachi music, electronic music and Brian Eno as some of his primary influences – and it’s clear that *THE ALBUM LEAF* is unafraid of thinking outside the box, both as an individual artist & within the larger scope of modern music.

Over time, *THE ALBUM LEAF* (now based in Los Angeles) has grown from a side endeavor to LaValle's main focus. The project’s first releases, An Orchestrated Rise To Fall (1999) and One Day I’ll Be On Time (2001), intertwined field recordings, Rhodes piano, and a nuanced treatment of texture with mature songwriting and dense, evocative atmospheres. Following these records, which put *THE ALBUM LEAF* on the map for critics and fans worldwide, Icelandic band Sigur Rós discovered LaValle and took *

Newest Listed Items

Jimmy LaValle’s The Album Leaf has spun from solo outlet to full band and back in
its nearly 25 years. His acclaimed catalog spans releases for labels such as Sub
Pop, City Slang, Relapse, and others. He also composes music for film and
television, scoring over 20 projects (narrative features, documentaries, and TV
series) since 2009. The cinematic sensibilities of The Album Leaf were present from
the beginning. His 1999 debut introduced the start of a signature sound: melodic and
meditative electro-organic soundscapes constructed with guitar, percussion, Rhodes,
and field recordings.


His seventh full-length LP, and first since 2016, arrives in 2023 via Vancouver’s
Nettwerk Records. Future Falling finds LaValle working with an array of
musicians, shaping slightly darker, more spacious, and synth-driven songs with
contributions from Bat For Lashes, Kimbra, and many others.

The music registers a shade darker and more synth-driven than most moments in his
acclaimed catalog, a bridge between shadowy, cerebral terrain and dreamy precision
pop, where softly percussive frameworks meet shimmering sound design and
emotive instrumentation.


Future Falling

Music GB