Kiran Leonard has announced a new album titled Real Home, sharing the song ‘My Love, Let’s Take the Stage Tonight’ along with the news. The LP is out April 17 via the London-based artist’s new label home, Memorials of Distinction. Check out the new song and find the album cover and tracklist below.
Leonard offered this context on the song:
My imitation of the great Hank Williams, in spirit if not in substance…This is one of the best efforts on Real Home at a song-as-object. Looking at it now I realise I was trying to write a song that made itself known as a song to the listener, and I wonder whether that’s crucial if you want a song to transcend its context. And that this is either accomplished through a total openness – by being inviting, by laying the tricks of the song out plain to see, as Williams and his many ghostwriters did so well – or by adopting a knowing aloofness, positioning oneself against the listener but letting it be known that that’s what it’s doing. In this song I try both, but mostly the former: as in, I wanted to write a song where every line follows on from the next.
Speaking about the album, he added: “The theme of the home obviously recurs throughout the record; the album was mostly recorded in domestic spaces with friends, and the name of the album is Real Home. I like the qualifier ‘real’, like you’re getting past the cloak of the word and towards the thing-itself…[also] nearly all the percussion in this record was recorded on items from my dad’s shed (jam jars, sandpaper, blocks of wood, etc). Real home record!”
Real Home Cover Artwork:
Real Home Tracklist:
1. Pass Between Houses
2. Theatre for Change
3. Real Home
4. Treat Me a Stranger
5. Utopia of Bog
6. Void Attentive
7. My Love, Let’s Take the Stage Tonight
8. The Kiss
9. He Had Always Led
