We nearly got away with having a perfectly aliterate title, but alas… Nevermind though, as Owen Pallett (him who has worked with Arcade Fire and the Last Shadow Puppets among many others) has released a taste of his upcoming album under the Final Fantasy moniker.

It’s the third such record, titled Heartland, and will be available on January 18 to wash away your post-Christmas blues. We realise we’re teasing you here, so if you can’t wait that long the good folk over at Domino are giving you lucky people the chance to listen to it now in exchange for that most vital of music-buying commodity – your e-mail address.

So, if that’s your thing, head on over to www.dominorecordco.com/freelewis (or just click the link if you’re lazy) and get your own copy of Lewis Takes Action absolutely free. And as if that wasn’t enough, you’ll also be entered into a competition to win one of 25 limited edition signed 7″ singles of the same song.

The upcoming album, Heartland, is the third Final Fantasy album to date and comes after nine months of work in four different countries. True to form, it’s a fully orchestral record, which is apparently designed “to exist simultaneously as an album, a 45 minute piece of orchestral music and a set of songs for looped violin and voice”. Sounds fancy.

Final Fantasy will be performing at the Union Chapel in London on January 25, with further dates for March 2010 to be announced soon.

Says Pallett of Heartland:

The songs themselves form a narrative concerning a farmer named Lewis and the fictional world of Spectrum. The songs are one-sided dialogues with Lewis, a young, ultra-violent farmer, speaking to his creator. The album was compositionally modeled upon the principles of electronic music. The principles of analog synthesis informing symphonic writing, like an inversion of a Tomita record. These songs, too, were designed to be as dense with polyphony as the Final Fantasy live shows can become. While writing it, I kept an image in my head of putting so many notes on the page that the paper turned black. This record encapsulates a whole year of work for me, and was difficult to see through, but I’m immensely proud of the results. I hope you enjoy it.

We do too.