All photos copyright Sara Montour. Words by Fense.

There’s a personality to The Album Leaf that is unquestionable. Their melodies are sweet, adorned with pleasing and hypnotic, dreamy rhythms. Split between swirling dulcet instrumentals and love-at-first-sight vocal tracks, they truly are a band of which to take note. And they have been for some time.

Most of us are pretty familiar with their more recent work, the albums post signing to Sub Pop: In A Safe Place and Into The Blue Again. Well they’re back with their third album on Sub Pop and fifth album overall. A Chorus Of Storytellers came out earlier this month, and The Album Leaf is on tour in support of that release.

A friend of FensePost, photographer Sara Montour, caught The Album Leaf in Seattle last weekend. Here are some of her shots…

The Album Leaf: Falling From The Sun [mp3]

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