#582 The Album Leaf & Opinions on The xx and The Flaming Lips

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The Album Leaf combines digital and organic instruments to make a unique sound. Bandleader Jimmy LaValle joins Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot to talk about the importance of giving electronic music a live experience and how the Album Leaf grew from a side project into a full time gig. Plus, reviews of the new albums from the Flaming Lips and the xx.

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0:00.0	There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. I don't want any of this lovers lament crap. I want something peppy, something happy, something up-temple, I want something peppy something happy something up temple I want something snappy. Jimmy Lavellaellen is band The Outenleaf makes sweeping intricately layered music.
0:41.8	The band joins us in the studio to play live and
0:44.0	talk about how a side project turned into a full-time band. I'm Jim D. Regattus.
0:48.4	And I'm Greg Kot. Also this hour we review new albums from the XX and the flaming lips that's all coming up on sound opinions
0:58.8	this is sound opinions and coming up later in the show we've got a conversation and studio performance by the album leaf, but first we're going to tackle some new releases.
1:10.0	I don't blame you we got carried away I can't hold on to an empty space.
1:25.0	Now you found when you start to orbit
1:29.0	it could be lover think you're too soon to call us old when and where did we go cold I thought
1:39.2	I had you on hold that is a little bit of on hold, a track from the third album by the XX I see you.
1:49.0	Greg, when we had the group on the show back in 2010, not long after the release of their debut album,
1:56.7	I had no idea they were going to become as big an influence as they are now.
2:01.5	That debut primarily crafted by three people, Romy Madly Croft, Oliver Sim, and
2:06.7	Jamie Smith sort of set the world on fire. It was a slow build, but the influence of this band in trying to merge modern soul music
2:17.1	Riana a big favorite a Leah with more alternative traditional sounds like the cure, I have always heard a little
2:23.6	cockto twins in there, has really become a major influence that puts them in this new
2:29.5	wave of soul artists like Frank Ocean or The Weekend. The group's second album followed up on the promise
2:36.2	of the first in 2012 and now we have album number three that comes complete with a prominent Hall and Oaks sample.
2:45.0	What is the XX giving us this third time around?
2:47.7	Let's play a track and we'll come back and give our reviews.
2:50.6	This is dangerous by the XX from-X-X-X-X- from the new album I see you on sound opinions.
2:57.0	They say we're in danger, but I disagree if proven wrong shame on me, but you've have faith in me so I won't shy way.
3:19.0	Should it all fall down
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