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Kiran Leonard - Bowler Hat Soup

Review by Jazz Monroe

Kiran Leonard makes manic, rippingly good music.»

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Kiran Leonard is a mercurially talented 17 year old musician from Oldham, Greater Manchester. His debut album 'Bowler Hat Soup' is set to be released on Hand of Glory. A fiercely inventive and unique piece of work from an important young artist, 'Bowler Hat Soup' will appeal to fans of Elephant 6 era modern psychedelia, prog, and classic alt pop. 'Dear Lincoln' is a stuttering Of Montreal theatrical piano-bashing romp that handbrake-turns into 'Brunswick Street' an off-cut from Robert Wyatt as sung by Rufus Wainwright. It fades out with carnival pipe-organ into 'Port-Aine', one of the highlights of this sprawling record, which sounds like a bucolic Antlers camping out in Portland, Oregon - not a home-recording from Dobcross, Oldham.
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