Final Fantasy

Owen Pallett's live violin-looping project was named Final Fantasy, in tribute to the melodramatic videogame series. Final Fantasy's debut album "Has A Good Home" (Blocks/Tomlab) was released in April 2005. The sophomore album, "He Poos Clouds" (Blocks/Tomlab) was written and arranged entirely for string quartet, and is a satirical song cycle based on the eight schools of magic according to Dungeons and Dragons. The Village Voice praised it as having "the best lyrics of the year", Pitchfork described it as "a joy to hear... this is, in a word, fierce--it can engage you on a level most albums can't", and many publications put it in their top ten lists for the year. Canadian journalists voted and awarded it the inaugural Polaris Prize for best Canadian full-length album.  http://www.finalfantasyeternal.com/