Kiran Leonard signs to Moshi Moshi for new LP Grapefruit, shares 16-minute lead single "Pink Fruit"

The single will be released on its own as a "strictly limited one-sided etched 12” vinyl single" on 12 February.

Speaking about the record's influences, Leonard says:

"deerhoof; shellac; dirty projectors’ “the getty address”; vasco da gama (RIP); enablers; death sentence: panda!; the end of “eraserhead” where [spoiler] the baby dies and the whole of henry’s apartment fills with mashed potato; set design and costumes in alan bennett’s “the madness of king george iii”; a lack of professional percussion equipment (seriously, anybody who’s ever bought a cabasa is a fool of a took: just wrap a piece of sandpaper round a block of wood and scratch the surface with a washing-up brush. it’s exactly the same noise); warren ellis’ 4-string guitar playing on grinderman’s disgustingly underrated second album “grinderman 2” (which for my money is the best album nick cave’s ever been a part of); old friends & new; contrasts & the past & the future;

"[…] and i think that the root of it was more connected with cowardice than with malice. it was just pathetic posturing […] “he belittles her because he is afraid that if he doesn’t, they will say that he is a pussy and start to belittle him instead.” this is the inspiration behind the song’s central motif, of the squid in the hollow abdomen. i don’t want to tell you why exactly […] god almighty a school is such a terrible place to spend your formative years […] boy who used to call me a long-haired faggot and punch me in the kidneys in biology classes, this one goes out to you."

Grapefruit is out via Moshi Moshi on 25 March. It follows 2013 debut Bowler Hat Soup.

Listen to "Pink Fruit" below, and then check over the LP's tracklist and Leonard's new tour dates afterwards.

Tracklist:

1. Secret Police
2. Pink Fruit
3. Öndör Gongor
4. Caiaphas in Fetters
5. Don't Make Friends With Good People
6. Exeter Services
7. Half-Ruined Already
8. Fireplace

January 2016

11 – London, Victoria
12 – Brighton, Prince Albert
13 – Salford, Eagle Inn
14 – Glasgow, The Hug & Pint (Celtic Connections Festival)