Album · 2014 · 13 Songs. In Conflict Owen Pallett.

In Conflict is the second song off of Pallett’s 2014 album of the same name. The song deals with the balance between human beings' violent impulses, and their repression of those impulses. The turmoil one feels when they are trying to balance these two emotions gives the song its namesake and is a prominent theme on the album. Pallett elaborated, It is monoliths, it is discipline, it is repetition, it is anger.

The second studio album to be released under his own name, Owen Pallett's In Conflict, despite its antagonistic title, sounds like the culmination of all of his previous guises (Final Fantasy, Arcade Fire string arranger, Oscar-nominated co-writer of the score to 2013's Her), and while it may peer into the abyss (at least thematically)

Owen Pallett used to veil his songs in characters and scenarios imported from an alternate universe’s folklore. On In Conflict, for the first time, he’s singing directly about himself. He doesn’t indulge metaphors like my blood is a red-winged bird (from Heartland’s Midnight Directives ) anymore. He does list strategies he’s been taught to ward off urges to smoke.

Michael James Owen Pallett (born September 7, 1979) is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist, who performs solo as Owen Pallett or, before 2010, under the name Final Fantasy. As Final Fantasy, he won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds

Take Canadian t Owen Pallett’s arty, achingly personal, violin-led ballads. A niche musical area perhaps, but in Pallett’s capable, creative hands, one that has led to him touring with Arcade Fire, being nominated for an Oscar (for the score he co-wrote with Arcade Fire’s William Butler for Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’) and working with legends like Brian Eno. ‘In Conflict’, the fourth solo album from Pallett (previously writing under the name Final Fantasy), is a sublime demonstration of why he’s held in such high regard. In Conflict’ is a beautiful and powerful album, light as a feather in its delivery of complicated musical and lyrical ideas, but packing a punch that’s sharp enough to floor most other records released this year.

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Owen Pallett has announced the follow up to 2010's Heartland and Swedish Love Story EP. It's called In Conflict, and it's out May 13 via Domino/Secret City. It features contributions from Brian Eno on synth, guitar, and vocals, plus the Czech FILMharmonic Orchestra. The album was recorded by Mark Lawson at Hotel2Tango and Sonovox Studios in Montreal. Find the album cover above. Pallett is also heading out on a tour.