THE SKYGREEN LEOPARDS
Gorgeous Johnny
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THE SKYGREEN LEOPARDS
Jehova Surrender
CD
THE SKYGREEN LEOPARDS
Life & Love in Sparrow's Meadow
CD

This latest album from psych-folk stalwarts The Skygreen Leopards finds the band collaborating with Papercuts' Jason Quever, who assists on a variety of instruments, filling in bass, drum and keyboard parts. This coalition fits the band's sound rather well and helps them persist with the time-warped, Basement Tapes-y feel of their previous efforts. You'd expect a band that sounds like this to be commercially viable folk-rock contenders in this ... READ MORE ABOUT: THE SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, Gorgeous Johnny, COSMOS ![]()
The Skygreen Leopards recent 'Life and Love in Sparrow's Meadow' album was a cloaked mediation on the travails of nature; a territory they broadly revisit on their new EP 'Jehova Surrender'. Seemingly concerned with the wax and wane of the seasons, Donovan Quinn and Glenn Donaldson again emerge from the Jewelled Antler collective to deliver a scuffed collection of charming compositions that seamlessly merge their refried take on the Bay Area's 19... READ MORE ABOUT: THE SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, Jehova Surrender, Jagjaguwar ![]()
Just as Lee Scratch Perry famously used to sit microphones in front of trees during trips to the UK so he could get some "Oak vibes" on his records, The Skygreen Leopards are similarly enthralled by the whole notion of nature featuring in their songs. With much of 'Life & Love In Sparrow's Meadow' either recorded in the great outdoors or overlaid by field recordings of birds, barnyard animals and miscellaneous beasties, there is a distinctly past... READ MORE ABOUT: THE SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, Life & Love in Sparrow's Meadow, Jagjaguwar ![]()