Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy inevitably gets compared to Andrew Bird, and that’s understandable: Even before I knew that FF’s auteur, Owen Pallett, uses a similar violin-plus-foot-pedal-looping-sampler technique, they seemed linked sonically. More than once I’ve found myself listening to Pallett’s 2006 release, He Poos Clouds, and thinking that Bird’s “Sovay” or “Banking on a Myth” was playing, […]