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Kiran Leonard - Grapefruit

Review by Haydon Spenceley

The album where the caterwauling creativity of Leonard's songwriting is fully harnessed with his exceptional live band and distilled in to a coherent and cohesive musical statement»

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20 year old Kiran Leonard releases his debut album, 'Grapefruit' on Moshi Moshi "A boy, in his attempt to gain an elusive masculine identification, often comes to define this masculinity largely in negative terms, as that which is not feminine or involved with women. There is an internal and external aspect to this. Internally, the boy tries to reject his mother and deny his attachment to her and the strong dependence upon her that he still feels. He also tries to deny the deep personal identification with her that he has developed during his early years. He does this by repressing whatever he takes to be feminine inside himself, and, importantly, by denigrating and devaluing whatever he considers to be feminine in the outside world." - Nancy Chodorow.
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