Owen Pallett on His Favorite album - Xiu Xiu's "A Promise"

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Talking with Owen Pallett, the 2006 Polaris Music Prize Winner, about Xiu Xiu's first record A Promise is akin to peeling back several layers of an onion to fully reveal an intelligent, intransigent and infinitely talented and fascinating human being.

[@stephanieinners4763]

Does anybody else find it adorable that he arranges his books in a rainbow?

[@banjogyro]

I find it adorable how his favorite album is Xiu Xiu A Promise

[@James-ij7jp]

i love that this is his favorite album. Epic. I'd love to see him cover a few XiuXiu, particular Apistat Commander and/or Suha.
DO IT!

[@DavidMGiles]

What about a collab?

[@ghostofmethuselah]

@@DavidMGiles they have collaborated!! check out ‘I Dream Of Someone Else Entirely’ from OH NO!

[@marley8105]

and now he's featured on the new xiu xiu album!! that's gotta be a really cool experience

[@levyelliot5648]

Was listening to A Promise earlier today at work on a whim and wondered whether there was any Owen connection. Of course there is! I'm not at all surprised that it's his favorite album. "Campy self-evisceration" is a good way to describe the genre a some of my favorite artists (Owen, Parenthetical Girls, etc) fall into. And is also quite an apt 2-word summary of Heartland.

[@skyfinity9199]

Nice to see that Moondog LP peeking out. I'd bet that had a minor role in influencing Spectrum 14th century and Heartland. It probably sits comfy enough next to A Promise :).

[@tarekdeeb7314]

He's adorable 😍

[@midilyfestyle]

I love that people out there still associate FTW with "fuck the world" and don't always assume it means "for the win".

[@traxcanonch.2421]

I assocciate it with "fuck the what" XD, because it's WTF backwards

[@Quichoable]

that was brilliant. He explains shit so well

[@screamtoasigh9984]

it's weird having Owen and Jarvis being 2/5 of my favourite lyricists... never heard him mention pulp before... wonder what he thinks of Neil Hannon...

[@nold3203]

cool ideas on non-capital music production

[@TheOtherBeuh]

whats the song in the bg?

[@creaturedekeis]

whats the background music start at 0:13 =)

[@noneofyoucanspell]

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