{"id":61177,"date":"2015-11-30T11:34:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T11:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=61177"},"modified":"2017-03-01T12:08:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T12:08:05","slug":"new-noise-kiran-leonard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2015\/11\/30\/new-noise-kiran-leonard\/","title":{"rendered":"New Noise: Kiran Leonard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wise, refreshing and critically acclaimed, what more do you want in an up-and-coming musician?<\/p>\n

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“Deerhoof, Shellac, Dirty Projectors… the end of\u00a0Eraserhead<\/i>\u00a0where the baby dies and the whole of Henry\u2019s apartment fills with mashed potato” – these are just some of the influences Kiran Leonard\u00a0tells us about\u00a0for his\u00a0second album\u00a0Grapefruit<\/i>. The list goes on to hail the set design and costumes in Alan Bennett\u2019s\u00a0The Madness of King George III\u00a0<\/i>and having a lack of professional percussion equipment to experiment with. “Anybody who\u2019s ever bought a cabasa is a fool. Just wrap a piece of sandpaper round a block of wood and scratch the surface with a washing-up brush. It\u2019s exactly the same sound.”<\/p>\n

It’s safe to say that when most of us were fresh out of finishing our A-Levels, we hadn’t released a 16 track, critically acclaimed album. But then we’re not Kiran Leonard.\u00a0An early starter, Kiran’s first release,\u00a0Bowler Hat Soup<\/i>\u00a0was produced when\u00a0he was 17, and even now at just 20 years old,\u00a0speaks with a wisdom regarding\u00a0his work that would take most people years to cultivate.<\/p>\n

Grapefruit<\/i>\u00a0is the self-recorded follow-up to his initial success, which\u00a0consists of 8 surreal titles,\u00a0holding a combined sound of grunge, noise and ballads a la Grinderman.The album is heralded by a 16 minute long lead-track called\u00a0Pink Fruit<\/i>, which will be released as a strictly-limited one-sided 12\u201d vinyl single early next year.<\/p>\n

We live in\u00a0an oversharing\u00a0era with increasing pressure from a PR perspective on artists to remain scripted and say the ‘right’ thing.\u00a0Refreshingly, Kieran has a blatant disregard for this dull philosophy, and dedicated his latest work to a school foe in conceited fashion: “to the boy who used to call me a long-haired f***ot and punch me in the kidneys in biology class…\u00a0this one goes out to you”
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