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I doubt many were expecting a contender for album of the year to drop eleven days into it’s passage, but Owen Pallett’s Heartland (available for streaming via Domino Records @ Soundcloud) is just that, and more- a lush, triumphant emergence from the chrysalis courtesy of the baroque pop movement’s most prescient instrumentalist. (The above free listen comes highly encouraged; “Lewis Takes Action” and “Tryst With Mephistopheles” are album standouts.)

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