Bird Streets - Lagoon - VINYL LP

John Brodeur's third full-length as Bird Streets is a paranoid guitar-pop record, rife with themes of isolation and existential dread. Produced by Jason Falkner at his Los Angeles studio, it was recorded over four years, beginning in the early days of the global pandemic, and runs the musical gamut from claustrophobic folk to anthemic indie-pop to punk-rock freakout. While largely a two-man affair, with Brodeur and Falkner handling all the musical chores, the album also features guest spots by Gina Romantini (Wallflowers, Jayhawks), Zach Jones (Sting), and Oscar Albis Rodriguez (A Great Big World).

F. Couperin - Organ Mass for Abbey Churches [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/01/2001

Cathartic avant-rock, literate DIY folk & experimental composition exploring displacement, love, climate change, belonging & the places we call home - RIYL Jim O'Rourke, Richard Youngs, This Heat, Richard Dawson, Flying Nun. 'Real Home' is the new album by the Manchester-born, London-based artist Kiran Leonard. His sixth album proper (not including innumerable tour-only CD-Rs and short-run cassettes), since his precocious debut in 2013, 'Real Home' finds Leonard invigorated by inspiration and experience, making passionate, literate, and mercurial music that explores displacement, love, memory, climate change, connections to home and more. Encompassing songs recorded after moving to South London, 'Real Home' reflects on ideas of belonging and domesticity through folkloric, stream-of-consciousness songwriting. Across nine tracks, Leonard traces lived impressions of the household and the city, expressing sentiments of dislocation, alienation and stasis, but contentment too. Infusing the avant-rock effervescence, terraced dynamics and visionary lyricism of his music with what he defines as a greater sense of openness, Leonard is as versatile, fervent and imaginative as ever on 'Real Home', yet his music is somehow more intimate, affecting, and acutely expressive. Shaped by dual considerations of simplicity and formalism, 'Real Home' is by turns beautiful, allusive, and ruminative, an album on which Leonard considers what his songs have resembled in the past and what they mean now. In recent years, Leonard has crafted eloquent chamber music inspired by the likes of James Joyce and Clarice Lispector ('Derevaun Seraun'), responded to contemporary politics and communication breakdown in the digital age ('Western Culture'), and compiled solo works and ensemble recordings for a longform ode to Jonas Mekas and to one of Leonard's enduring themes; home ('Trespass On Foot'). On 'R