Canadian musician, Owen Pallett is prepping his second album release since dropping his Final Fantasy moniker.

Pallett last released an LP back in 2010, with Heartland. Now In Conflict, being scheduled for a 2014 release date, will be his first full-length in four year.

“For the first time, I tried to write a record that was not metaphorical or fantasy-land hippie-dippy stuff, to mine my own autobiographical treasures, as bare as that cupboard is,” Pallett recently told The Grid TO. “And in doing so, I recognized there were a lot of anti-essentialist qualities to my own state of being — like a simultaneous acceptance of my masculinity and also revulsion to that masculinity. It’s not like it’s my gender-identity-disorder record, because I don’t have gender-identity disorder — but it’s very much a rejection-of-gender-norms kind of record.”

You can listen to a live rendition of the LP’s title-track beneath:

[via The 405 / Exclaim, Photo by Ro Cemm]