The underground is full of prolific misfits who won’t settle into one genre. Few of them are as prodigious as Kiran Leonard, just 20 and on his second studio album, having started recording in his early teens. Freak-folk currents still run through tracks such as Fireplace, but Grapefruit is more wilful and abrasive than his last effort, 2013’s Bowler Hat Soup. Sometimes, as on the 16-minute centrepiece, Pink Fruit, Leonard’s like Jeff Buckley fronting an orchestral math-rock band; other times, as on Exeter Services, it’s the spirit of Thurston Moore that’s uppermost. You can hear the antecedents, but Leonard’s chops are unimpeachable, as he marshals DIY touchstones and esoteric influences.
