Jimmy LaValle – Queen City Sounds and Art

The Shimmering Spiral of The Album Leaf’s “Rotations” is an Emotional Journey to Tranquil Transcendence

The Album Leaf, photo courtesy the artist

The slow shimmering spiral of The Album Leaf’s “Rotations” sounds like what it feels like to look out the window flying over the Arctic circle and looking out the window at the frozen tranquility of the landscape below. It’s stark yet comforting from the relative safety of the airplane cabin. Then the song’s icy synths give way to more solid and direct tones that are vivid and rich yet smooth and resonant in a way that soothes at it stimulates your brain with its ascending melodies that build with subtly added brighter sounds that complement well and intertwine with the core rhythmic frequencies and textures until all glimmer into the distance. It’s a musical journey inward into more transcendent emotional spaces that leaves your brain at ease. Watch the visualizer on YouTube and follow The Album Leaf at the links below.

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The Album Leaf Pairs With Bat For Lashes to Imbue “Near” With the Warmth of Yearning Affection

Jimmy LaValle as The Album Leaf brings a real sound design and cinema score aesthetic to his tracks for the forthcoming album FUTURE FALLING (due out May 5, 2023). But he is able to transform the background and pure mood aspect of that form of songwriting into ambitious pop songs like “Near” which features Bat For Lashes aka Natasha Khan. The song sounds like the kind of tune you might write if you were trapped by winter snows in isolation and yearning for contact with someone for whom you have a deep affection. The sweep of textural drone in the background flowing with percussion that seems to move in the seemingly random manner of precipitation while highlighting Khan’s soulful and introspective warmth and gift for conveying an expansive and enveloping spirit. Listen to “Near” on YouTube and follow The Album Leaf at the links below.

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The Album Leaf Brings Us Along on a Drifting Journey to Elevated States of Tranquility on “Future Falling”

“Future Falling” is like listening to the slow evolution of an artist having eased into a new plateau. The Album Leaf has long perfected the background of slow shimmer and hypnotic, repeated, sequenced melody while tones with real physicality of sound carry a melody with a slow blossom of elements that flow and invite you along for a drift into tranquil spaces. You could spend a lot of time sorting out the rich array of elements that create this atmosphere like the ways bell tones are processed, the striking of strings, the layered streams of synth and the orchestration of it all but the mood of slow elevation and acceptance of a peaceful mode of being is the end point of the song as it lets you off with the gentlest of touches at the end of the journey. Listen to “Future Falling” with its prismatic visualizer on YouTube and follow The Album Leaf at the links provided.