The Passions: Owen Pallett's Favourite Albums | Page 11 of 14 | The Quietus

Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

10. Total Freedom – Boiler Room live sets

Both of them! Both the 30-minute one and the 40-minute one. This was also a band discovery, something that we were listening to. It’s really amazing, the collage of different sources and different material in this all-encompassing and non-ironic way. He has this feeling of a lack of control, he’s letting himself go and having this freewheeling approach. There’s a lyric I wrote after listening to those Boiler Room sets which is about men needing to lose control. I was really inspired by that feeling that even though he was in control, it was this unhinged thing, not aesthetically, but this deeper relaxing and letting go of material.