Los Angeles based Irish born singer/songwriter Kieran Leonard has worked with likes of Lana Del Ray, Dave Grohl, Ryan Adams and Father John Misty.
He will support The Strokes and Beck at Hyde Park this week — and plays a headline show at new venue The Waiting Room next Tuesday June 23rd.
Recently, he supported Ryan Adams on tour.
There’s a new single video out on Fierce Panda June 29th, called Underwood Milk.
We had a listen:
With lightly strummed riffs that reminded, musically, of Dylan (he was invited to support Bob Dylan in London 2011 … so maybe it should not be surprising,) and Beatles i.e. Yellow Submarine… This is stuffed to the bulwarks with intelligent rock ideas and clever hooks.
The guitar-work is strikingly elegant and the voice (a mix of Ian Hunter and Noel Gallagher … Yes, Noel) is gruff and grumbly — but it has a hidden twinkle.
Vocals are sharp-raw and dry-to-the-bone, the rhythms are smooth and the musicianship glows like peeled skin spent working too long on subsistence farms.
Yep, this is earthy rock ‘n’ roll — played diligently and possessing an ancestry that seems sent from heaven.
Words: @neilmach 2015 ©
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