The Album Leaf

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A A A Comments By Michael Alan Goldberg Thursday, May 24 2007

The Album Leaf turns over a new one.

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The Album Leaf is scheduled to perform on Saturday, May 26

Brickhouse Theater

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Jimmy LaValle has made music in the past with some interesting bands (Tristeza and Black Heart Procession chief among them), but the best thing that ever happened to him — and listeners, too — was when members of cosmic art-rockers Sigur Rós discovered one of the discs he'd recorded under his nom-de-bedroom-pop the Album Leaf, and invited him to their Iceland studio to collaborate and record. There, he injected space and a pacific pace into his mainly instrumental, piano/guitar/drum-programmed compositions, dropped in some strings and otherworldly voices, and the resultant In a Safe Place (2004) was an expansive, ethereal winner. Into the Blue Again, released last September, doesn't stray too much from its predecessor — gauzy melodies unfurl slowly and warmly, and are satisfyingly atmospheric — but there are a few more conventionally structured (with vocals) indie-rock numbers present as well. Which should keep the crowd, as well as the five-member Album Leaf live lineup, on its toes for the duration of what promises to be a graceful, stellar set.

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