Name: Past and Future Tense
Brand: Album Leaf

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Default:19

Supplier EU

Bertus Musikvertrieb

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Limited edition

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Format Music EU

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Extended format: No

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Signed copies: No

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Download code: No

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Bonus disc: No

Release date

2022-06-16

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Catalogue number

12891

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67003128919

Artist

Album Leaf

Label EU

Nettwerk

Genre EU

Rock-Pop

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 *

The Album Leaf

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hree long out-of-print EPs, two available for the first time on vinyl. Packaged together with an EP of brand new material. Pressed on opaque galaxy vinyl with four album-sized art cards of remastered artwork by long-time collaborator Alex Deamon. Released exclusively for Record Store Day 2022.

Past and Future Tense

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