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''Heartland'' is the third full-length album by Canadian indie rock artist Owen Pallett, released January 12, 2010 on Domino Records. It's the first of Pallett's records to be released under his own name. Since the album was his first to be released in Japan, he wished to avoid generating confusion with the Final Fantasy video games from Square Enix, and to avoid infringing on any trademarks. Pallett stated that his previous albums will be repackaged and reissued under his own name at some point. The record was mixed by New York producer Rusty Santos.〔(Domino Records Artists: Owen Pallett )〕 The album was a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize. ==Concept and development== As a prelude to the album, Pallett recorded an EP, ''Spectrum, 14th Century''. Both the EP and the subsequent full-length are set in an imaginary realm called Spectrum. The songs on ''Heartland'' form a narrative concerning a "young, ultra-violent farmer" named Lewis, commanded by an all-powerful narrator—named Owen. According to Pallett, the songs are one-sided dialogues with Lewis speaking to his creator. In an interview, Pallett commented that the idea behind Heartland is "preposterous. I wanted to have this contained narrative that has the breadth of a Paul Auster short story." Michael Barclay of ''Maclean's'' states that the lyrics raise all sorts of theological questions about believers’ relationship with a deity and the nature of fate, but the construct is just a blank canvas. Pallett said, "Really, it's just all about me. All records are about their singer. I was trying to play with that." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heartland (Owen Pallett album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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