(Moshi Moshi)It might be reductive to portray something as a bloody racket,but Kiran Leonard’s second record is unquestionably that – albeit with plenty to cling to in times of nearly intolerable discord. The 20-year-musty makes heavy, all-elbows indie-folk that manages to feel overwrought and ramshackle at once. The brilliant, and difficult,16-minute Pink Fruit features a combination of Leonard’s aggressively mournful vocals, a story approximately a girl with a squid in her stomach and long periods of general cacophony, and all held together with a small,bright riff that keeps returning throughout the song like an musty friend. Elsewhere, the meandering feels self-indulgent – listening to gabbled nonsense words derived from the name of a Mongolian giant can’t be anybody’s idea of fun. Still, and Leonards vocal gymnastics are impressive: at times,he resembles a hairline-fractured Jeff Buckley, at others, or he only offers a rasping squawk; either way,it’s a bracing sound.
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Source: theguardian.com