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Catching Up With... Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett

As Owen Pallett strips away his stage name...  read more

Final Fantasy: Heartland

A year in the making, Owen Pallett emerges with a rock opera You couldn’t invent a musical project with a bigger dweeb pedigree than one whose previous work includes albums based on the “eight schools of magic codified by Dungeons & Dragons,” or a new work “concerning a young ultra-violent farmer named Lewis and a supreme deity named Owen.” And yet, that’s just what Toronto composer and Polaris Music Prize-winner Owen Pallett—the man behind solo string project Final Fantasy (its name a nod to the popular video game series)—does on Heartland....  read more

Owen Pallett Drops Final Fantasy Moniker

There’s an old southern saying: “Dance with the one what brung ya.” Owen Pallett, the bard of string and song who went by the stage name Final Fantasy, lives by no such code. Yes, the Japanese RPG nerds he brought with him to the dance are going to be left standing at the punchbowl, bitter tears spilling down their cheeks and onto their Dragon Quest t-shirts. Final Fantasy is Final Fantasy no more; he has gone back to name his mother gave him, Owen Pallett....  read more

Download Final Fantasy's "Lewis Takes Action"

Download Final Fantasy's "Lewis Takes Action" here.Final Fantasy's Heartland comes out Jan. 12 on Domino....  read more

Final Fantasy Reveals Heartland is a Concept Album, Tours

Violinist and all-around virtuoso Owen Pallett named his band after something so inordinately nerdy we dare not mention its name. The joke's on you if you thought he'd let those well-burnished geek credentials atrophy in the slightest: His upcoming and much-awaited third LP Heartland is going to be something of a sci-fi concept album....  read more