If there’s a criticism to be levelled against Kiran Leonard, it’s that the Oldham teenager has too many ideas for his own good. Across his last album, 2013’s sprawling ‘Bowler Hat Soup’, he invoked the likes of Jeff Buckley, Of Montreal and the Elephant 6 Collective, The Fiery Furnaces, Rufus Wainwright, Deerhoof, the Beach Boys and Frank Zappa’s Mothers Of Invention, sometimes within the space of a single song. On this remix of ‘Geraldo’s Farm’, however, Field Music’s Peter Brewis applies his band’s trademark asceticism, clipping what was a hairy Super Furries-do-krautrock ramble into a suave, clipped funk banger. (Though Leonard’s trademark hairbrainedness remains in the form of an enjoyably odd penny whistle solo.)
KIRAN LEONARD DEBUT UK TOUR
15 July Norwich, Epic Studio
16 July Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
17 July Brighton, The Hope
18 July London, Sebright Arms
24 July St Albans, The Horn
25 July Wakefield, The Hop
26 July Manchester, Gullivers
28 July Leicester, Cookie Jar
29 July Bristol, Old Bustop
30 July Newcastle, Think Tank
31 July Edinburgh, Electric Circus
01 Aug Slaidburn, Cloudspotting Festival
02 Aug London, Visions Festival
26 Aug London, XFM X-Posure Live @ The Barfly
29-31 Aug Larmer Tree Gardens, End Of The Road Festival
05 + 06 Sept Portmeirion, Festival No. 6