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Final Fantasy - Blue Imelda

As you've no doubt heard, Blocks are set to release two Final Fantasy EPs - Spectrum, 14th Century, a collection of new original material, and Plays to Please, a raft of Alex Lukashevsky covers - and they both became available at a recent show. While both these releases are excellent, it's the original material that really shines.
This song is currently my favourite, perhaps because I heard it in unfinished form some months back, when I reckoned it was one of the most beautiful things Pallett has ever written, clanging steel-pans and mournful vocals, horns and strings matching to bring down a sunset over this scene, different warm colours spreading and mixing like paint over the sky, over all the inhabitants of Spectrum. It's like a little island celebration.

You can hear another beautiful song, 'The Butcher' on Stereogum - it's amazing, and it's definitely got the best lyrics on the EP:

What of things? What thing? What is this thing?
I've a temper as shiny as any bling!

And finally, a little treat courtesy of B(oot)log - a live performance of one of his best songs mixed with some Bach (I think):

Final Fantasy - Many Lives -> 49 MP (Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, 27 August 2008)

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