The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place flac album

In A Safe Place masterfully negotiates the spaces between minimal electronica and neo-instrument rock. released August 19, 2015. THE ALBUM LEAF has been making its mark as a soft-spoken innovator steadily and surely since 1999. It's clear mastermind Jimmy LaValle is unafraid of thinking outside the box, both as an individual artist & within the lager scope of modern music. Now, a newly solidified lineup are poised to deliver another sonic triumph with 2016's 'Between Waves'.

In a Safe Place is an album by The Album Leaf, released in 2004. Recorded in Sigur Rós' Sundlaugin studios, it features collaborations in the recording from Sigur Rós' members and quartet Amiina. Window" appears in the 2009 BBC documentary, Armando Iannucci in Milton's Heaven and Hell. Sigur Rós : Kjartan Sveinsson – guitars, bells, glockenspiel, organs. Jón Þór Birgisson – acoustic guitar, vocals. Orri Páll Dýrason – drums.

The Album Leaf, Jimmy Lavalle’s (ex- Tristeza, The Locust; current- The Black Heart Procession) solo project, is an atmospheric journey of drum and bass beats, piano work, swirling orchestras, and now (drum roll please): vocals. After declining an invitation several times, Lavalle finally accepted the offer from Icelandic counterparts Sigur Ros to join them in their studio to compose and record his new album. A far cry from Lavalle’s home in southern California, Mossfellsbaer, Iceland provides the backdrop for his most compelling and beautiful work to date. In A Safe Place is an ambitious record that shows a more tender and pop oriented side to Lavalle. The additions of vocals, which don’t appear on previous Album Leaf releases, bolster Lavalle’s credibility as a top-notch composer. Instead of taking over the track, they compliment the real strengths of the compositions: the instrumental work.

The resulting record, The Album Leaf's third, is a collection of wispy rock songs peppered with sputtering beats, vocals, Moog, and gently whining strings. Curiously, LaValle's portrait of Iceland presents a far cooler vision than his guides' ever have: In a Safe Place is occasionally chilling, a studied, calming slice of icy serenity

I really feel "In a safe place" when I listen to this and let it wash over and through me. Beautifully melodic ambient music, and I love the beats. One person found this helpful.

The Album Leaf begins their songs with "silence" but never reach "violence. All of their songs are consonant, and never reach the harrowing heights of GY!BE or even Soli i Sombra. They all feel like they never step above the particular indie stylings of bands like American Football and Appleseed Cast. Now, though, in terms of being wonderful, at moments The Album Leaf are super enjoyable, but as an album In a Safe Place has some unfortunate flaws. It is way too homogenous, which is likely due to the lack of distinct peaks and valleys. Individually the songs plod on a lot, and as a whole the album too gets mushy as the song divisions blur together.