Claude says:Jimmy LaValle launched The Album Leaf in San Diego in 1998 as a solo outlet from his post-rock band Tristeza, building tracks around Rhodes piano, drum machines, and synthesizers. One Day I'll Be on Time layers shimmering electronics over patient melodies — instrumental passages that drift between ambient haze and gently insistent rhythm. You picked it up six years after release in 2007 and ran it hard through 2009, especially drawn to "Gust Of..." and the weightless loops of "MP" and "Wet the Day."