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.
Matt Resovich: Korg is killing it in general. I love my monotron to death, but the real diamond in the rough (it’s ugly) is their discontinued Microsampler. We simply could not find anything with its functionality anywhere without hooking up to a computer. It is so fun to sample sounds and play them back on a keyboard. Group consensus is Korg needs to repackage this functionality in a nice new keyboard.
