Owen Pallett

Sun., April 25, 8 p.m., $14, with Snowblink, First Unitarian Sanctuary, 2125 Chestnut St., 877-435-9849, r5productions.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

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Published: Apr 20, 2010

rock/pop/new music

For Heartland (Domino), his enchantingly intricate latest opus, Toronto singer/songwriter/arranger-to-the-indie-stars Owen Pallett went big, employing the Czech Symphony strings and a battery of woodwinds, percussion and electronics to enact a cerebral chamber-pop song-cycle which, despite its lushness, shies away from the easy sentimentality of the Romantics in favor of a stately, scintillating Glassine minimalism. On stage it's a chamber orchestra of one — just Owen with his trusty violin, his sweet, supple choirboy tenor, and a masterfully deployed loop pedal — but the effect is no less evocative and spellbinding.

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