The Album Leaf – Lines in a Leaf (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

The Album Leaf – Lines in a Leaf (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:20 minutes | 582 MB | Genre: Art Rock, Indie Rock, Post Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Numero Group

Following the projects with Frail and Pennikurvers, we are proud to announce the previously unreleased The Album Leaf’s Lines In A Leaf as our third record of the Hand Screened editions series. This series has been a cool way for us to tap into our DIY roots and the DIY nature of the recordings featured. Hand-screened locally here in Chicago and assembled right here in our office.Between the demise of screamo first-wavers Swing Kids and the rise of post-rock mainstays Tristeza, Jimmy LaValle could be found tinkering in his bedroom four track studio at 2145 E St. in San Diego. Six lo-fi soundscapes emerged from hundreds of hours of jamming alone in his headphones, eventually making their way via demo cassette to Tiger Style co-founder Mike Treff in 1998.

“I had known Jimmy from hardcore—Locust, Crimson Curse, Swing Kids, and Guyver-One were absolutely some of my favorite bands,” Treff said. “When I heard these recordings I was floored. The compositions, the range, the intensity achieved without distortion or extreme volume was just mind blowing. The Album Leaf’s music synthesized a love of lo-fi, field recordings, and the instrumental stuff coming out of Chicago and Louisville, but he was doing it with a directness that seemed to come from hardcore.”

Tracklist:

1-1. The Album Leaf – 2145 E St. (06:49)
1-2. The Album Leaf – Hill of Gold (04:54)
1-3. The Album Leaf – Fire to Fire (04:12)
1-4. The Album Leaf – Writing in the Sand (04:16)
1-5. The Album Leaf – Knots in a String of Beads (05:01)
1-6. The Album Leaf – A Crumpled Piece of Paper, Slowly Unfolding (06:06)

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