In the time that’s elapsed since its last proper album, 2010’s A Chorus Of Storytellers, Jimmy LaValle’s the Album Leaf has popped up with a soundtrack release and a collab with Sun Kil Moon, but the entity’s (the new Between Waves is the first A. Leaf LP to be made as a band effort) exploration of all things ambient, electronic and organically understated when it comes to both instrumental endeavors and the application of the aforementioned to a very contemporary-sounding indie-pop is what prevails on Between Waves. The Album Leaf will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our review of Between Waves.
Michael Raines: Follow Count Rashad and his sidekick Lee-Roy (a dubious dog with a severe penchant for trouble) every Saturday night here as they rip through an insanely dense, kaleidoscopic DJ set of psych, soul, funk, punk, rock ‘n’ roll, b-film trailers and pretty much anything else they’ve discovered in their hunt for the cultural scheisse of the past. If that’s not enough, their weekly updates on the whereabouts (and leafy products) of Uncle Morty’s Midnight Mobile Dispensary will keep you entertained—or at least keep your head in the clouds.
