Claude says:Jimmy LaValle started The Album Leaf in 1998 as a solo outlet from his post-rock band Tristeza, building tracks around Rhodes piano, drum machines, and synthesizers in his San Diego bedroom. This early material leans ambient and electronic, patient and textural, the kind of instrumental music that fills space without demanding attention. You played it twice — once in late 2022, then again over a year later — but it never became anything more than background.