Final Fantasy  Spectrum, 14th Century / Plays To Please EP
(Blocks Recording Club / States Rights Records/Slender Means
Society; 2008)  By Dom Sinacola | 24 October 2008  As with the
charming company he keeps, Owen Pallett treats his influences
like a turkey dinner, first glutting on the skin and then
picking his teeth with a rib bone. His output has mostly been
wispy chamber pop arranged for his friends and—some might say
for self-absorbed reasons—for himself, but the form he only
exploits for the obvious tension at its core: three or four
classically trained, young, attractive musicians, white
probably, sitting in a small space making art that must at some
point bend to the art of another person in the tiny room. Then
Pallet domesticizes the music by pitching his fey tenor over the
whole proceeding, poking fun, but never too much fun, and
dropping a fat hock of hierarchy in the lap of any player to
ever join Pallett in that white room where magic happens. Final
Fantasy, then, is untenably one-sided; I happ