Music Monday

Good lord. That Magnum thing has been up for over a week. In other, less Magnum-related news, I can't stop listening to Owen Pallett's debut release under his growns up real name (he used to go by Final Fantasy, and yes, that WAS an awesome video game). It's definitely one of those 'sit back and let it sink in' albums, but the LP, Heartland, will truly leave you reeling, building on Pallett's background in classical music and his flair for electronic glitch, but taking his song-writing and big-picture musical thinking to the next level. Pallett has already forged a career to be admired—from organizing music festivals, to donating money won from a cell phone company to local Toronto bands, to writing almost an entire album based on the schools of magic in D&D (MAJOR high five)—so I can't wait to see where he'll take the unavoidable success of Heartland. Check out our Song of the Week, Lewis Takes Off His Shirt. And take a look at this excellent recording of him playing it live last year at Ontario's Hillside Festival, just before being forced offstage by a rare Canadian monsoon.