... IS OWEN PALLETT
Besides being singer/songwriter of the band Final Fantasy, Owen Pallett is string composer of the widely-known band Arcade Fire. Owen used to play in Hidden Cameras, and he is also a guest musician in great demand. Recent invitations include the ones from Beirut and Holy Fuck.
With Final Fantasy, which is essentially a one man solo project with guest musicians he creates gems of baroque pop music. He employs a measured croon caught somewhere between Scott Walker and Louis Philippe with a soft Donovan-esque vibrato. Alternately dissonant and willfully melodic, his songs evoke either the emotional notion of crushing sigh of defeat or violent outbursts of passion. By the detailed musical instrumentation (using piano, strings, cembalo and percussions) he creates an epic of highly artistical degree.
At the moment he is working with Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner on another solo project.
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