The Album Leaf

The Album Leaf is the name of the project led by Californian musician Jimmy LaValle. Since 1999, he's been evolving in the atmospheric post-rock sphere, with a rich and graceful body of work. Working alone at the helm or sometimes with the support of his friends from Sigur Ros, with whom he recorded the album In a Safe Place in 2004, the composer has also scored experimental films. With its melodies built up in successive layers, its influences such as jazz, rock and electro, the universe of The Album Leaf evokes the atmospheric post-rock of Sigur Ros. It was in 2001, in fact, that Jimmy LaValle developed a friendship, soon followed by an artistic collaboration, with the Icelanders, whom he met on tour. The album In a Safe Place, recorded in Sigur Ros' Icelandic studios and released in July 2004, is the long-awaited fruit of this reunion. Developing his delicate compositions and dreamlike universe a little further, Jimmy LaValle released Into the Blue Again (2006), his second album for the independent label City Slang, which was very well received by specialist critics. The Album Leaf's fifth album, A Chorus of Storytellers, was released in 2010 on the Sub Pop label, which also reissued his two previous albums. In addition to the soundtracks to which he devoted himself in the early 2020s, LaValle signed the personal albums Future Falling (2023) and Rotations (2025).