Kiran Leonard

Kiran Leonard’s unique and ambitious body of work spans more than a decade of frenetic noise rock, ornate avant-folk, DIY no-fi, and everything in between. First becoming known as a teenager for his unpredictable and home-recorded chamber-prog epics such as “Bowler Hat Soup” (2013) and “Grapefruit” (2016), his more recent work has crystallised a vast aesthetic scope into a focused and singular voice, placing a greater emphasis on the directness of song and stream-of-consciousness poetics. 2024’s “Real Home” brings a newfound streak of candid and clear-cut melodicism to the elaborate, formalist qualities of his writing and arranging. Completed after half a decade of songs without choruses, the album is the culmination of years operating in the UK’s independent and experimental music circuits as one of its best-kept secrets.