Leopold and His Fiction

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Leopold and His Fiction – “Come Back (Now That I’m Here)”

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Leopold and his Fiction is the balanced reincarnate of a sultry era of western darkness underneath big city lights and country back roads leading to the morning shore of a transpiring musical horizon. The honest and transcendent San Francisco Rock ‘n’ Roll band escalating into the west coast music scene, Leopold and his Fiction acquires a moody-pop frame derived from distant genres and unwavering imagination in an attempt to reinvent what each member feels has dissipated from the greater measure of music.

Leopold provides Detroit filth and guitar orientation breathing parallel with rasped vocals soaring to a grave reflection. Of the trio’s American bicoastal familiarity and British influence, Daniel, along with the recent addition of bassist Micayla Grace, and drummer Jon contribute to a very diverse sound through personal interests.

Together they offer a morbid cohesion of California and a gentle open plains reminiscence stimulating a reason and energy for people to listen closely. A new vision in music and thought offers an alternate take to the repetition of a-sides with their own traditional sounds and elaborations.

“While the sound is certainly expansive, Leopold and His Fiction also manages to exude a certain kind of folk-tinged, backwoods charm that makes them much more than just a straight up rock-and-roll band.” (NPR Second Stage)

“Leopold and His Fiction make music that sounds inspired by a pile of obscure ’60s-era vinyl thrift-store scores. With vintagey organ riffs, moody vocals and a muddied sonic sheen, the songs here marry a Detroit-rock aesthetic with a hint of folk-rock philosophy and a Bay Area-worthy psychedelia.” (Sacramento News Review)

“Leopold And His Fiction manages these small, amusing feats but more importantly Daniel James is a wicked good songwriter-musician capable of evoking some primo ancestors over the course of this dead solid, warmly wrapped 11-song effort.” (Jambase)