| Has a Good Home | 
 enlarge | Artist: Final Fantasy
Label: Tomlab
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 89837
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 54
UPC: 789397785423
EAN: 0789397785423
ASIN: B0009NEYJ6
Release Date: July 11, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | None of You Will Ever See a Penny | | • | This Is the Dream of Win & Regine | | • | Your Light Is Spent | | • | Furniture | | • | The C N Tower Belongs to the Dead | | • | Took You Two Years to Win My Heart | | • | The Chronicles of Sarnia | | • | Andventure. Exe | | • | Library | | • | That's When the Audience Died | | • | Learn to Keep Your Mouth Shut, Owen Pallett | | • | An Arrow I the Side of Final Fantasy | | • | Please Please Please | | • | Better Than Worse |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
Superb! August 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A wonderful and creative album. Not only a new and unique style and sound, but the songs are also written quite well and not just different to be different. The kind of CD you could put on repeat all day at work or leave in the car for a month.
Great First Album January 18, 2008
I bought this for my friend but I really want a copy. I had first heard his album He Poos Clouds. This one, however, I'd love to have the chance to obsess over.
Toronto Strings November 15, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You can totally hear Toronto in Owen Pallet's strings. No wonder why Pallet has received most of the credits for Final Fantasy, his melodies are incredibly awsome. I must highlight the fact this is not an easy album, even though the melodies are friendly, it took me about four times listening to it to really get it. But after that, the results are great. "Has A Good Home" is a mix of the Indie Canadian Scene with some classic structures and instrumentation. Opening with "No one of you will ever see a penny" followed by "This is the dream of Win and Regine" is just like the opening of a movie or a play, those two tracks set the path for what's coming next. And if lyrics like "Montreal might eat it's young, but Montreal won't break us down" doesn't put you in the right Canadian mood, when you arrive to "The CN tower belongs the the dead" you are listening to Canada made into music. The whole album is really worthy, buy it, you won't regret it!.
Something different & good. March 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this album. It reminds me of Rasputina, but without the pretense. There's a lot of sound to explore here. The melody creation and arrangement is fabulous and its odd enough to keep a weirdo like me interested.
I wish for you December 2, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Final Fantasy is one of those bands that require your heart and brain to be in it, not just your ears.
Owen Pallet's one-man band is an exquisite example of intelligent music -- classical violins playing experimental indiepop. And his debut album "Has A Good Home" is like a fragile glass ornament spun out of music, with wildly varying styles and sensitive, bittersweet lyrics.
It opens with a smooth string introduction, joined in by Pallett's melancholy vocals. He sings of a dying rich man, who vows that "None of you will ever see a penny/Of my ill-begotten wealth." But it isn't malicious -- he wishes "a lifetime of labour" on his children, because "hard days make peaceful nights."
You'd think all the songs would be like that. But it's wrong. With the very next song (a tribute to Arcade Fire's Win and Regina), he weaves electronic edges to his quirky violin plucking.
And in the songs that follow, Pallett tries out a variety of styles. Each one has the violin winding through each one like a silken cord, no matter how odd the style is -- string folk, tight indiepop, classical glitchpop, angelic ballads, dancey pop, medieval-sounding songs, and ominous little ditties that shiver through to the end.
But the album reaches its peak with "Chronicles of Sarnia," a shimmering ballad with heartbreaking lyrics: "I had to hide myself in a book/To keep your love away.... Midwinter Banquet, he shook his head/"Sadly, no,/I can reverse the river's flow,/but I can never send you home."
A lot of indie bands include strings in their music, usually woven in with other instruments, but very few have the guts to feature an indiepop song that is backed almost entirely by violin. So "Has a Good Home" ends up sounding wholly unique, polished and accomplished.
And the classically-trained Pallett knows how to use his violin: it shivers, shimmers, wobbles, twangs, swoops and swells, and sweeps out the music into bittersweet grandeur. In fact, his quiet instrumentation would be glorious even if it weren't backed by little horns and weavings of synth. Those are just the icing on the proverbial cake.
The finishing touch is Pallett himself -- his smooth, mournful voice croons through the songs almost conversationally. And his songs have the inscrutable quality of poetry -- he tackles adventure-lust, Canada, Yukio Mishima, and deep heartbreak: "Took you two years to win my heart/then two words to break it/every song from a heart this mangled/will be draped in strings, strings, strings."
"Has A Good Home" is an exquisite debut album, and only served as the warm-up to Final Fantasy's even better second album. Deserves to be a classic.
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