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While we wait patiently for Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy to give us a tour around his Heartland, the dude's got a couple intriguing new locales to show us on a pair of forthcoming EPs.

The first concerns a made-up place called Spectrum, and the other, the world of Toronto songwriter Alex Lukashevsky.

First up is Spectrum, 14th Century, due September 30 from Blocks Recording Club. The five-song set is comprised of so-called "fake field recordings" taped out-of-doors in Quebec in May 2007 by Pallett with the help of all of the members of Beirut. It's due on CD and on a 10" EP in an edition of 1,000.

Then there's Plays to Please, a joint presentation of the Slender Means Society, States Rights Records and Blocks Recording Club. It's due October 21 on CD and 10" EP, both in limited editions of 1,000 apiece. The EP gathers a half-dozen tunes written by Alex Lukashevsky of the band Deep Dark United, performed by a 35-piece band featuring, among others, Andrew Bird, the Hidden Cameras' Paul Mathew, and Drumheller's Nick Fraser.

Final Fantasy have a smattering of dates the world over throughout the rest of the year.

Spectrum, 14th Century:

01 Oh, Spectrum
02 Blue Imelda
03 The Butcher
04 Cockatrice
05 The Ballad of No-Face

Plays to Please:

01 Horsetail Feathers
02 Ultimatum
03 Moodring Band
04 I Saved a Junkie Once
05 Nun or a Bawd
06 Crush Love Crush

Final Fantasy:

08-27 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music Hall *
08-30 Victoria, British Columbia - McPherson Playhouse (Rifflandia Music Festival)
08-31 Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot Festival
09-14 Porto Alegre, Brazil - Santander Cultural
09-17 Sao Paulo, Brazil - SESC Santana !
09-18 Sao Paulo, Brazil - SESC Santana !
09-20 Recife, Brazil - No Ar Coquetel Molotov Festival
10-17 Reykjavik, Iceland - Iceland Airwaves Festival
12-13 Melbourne, Australia - Meredith Music Festival

* with Nico Muhly, Sam Amidon, Doveman
! with Colleen