Album of the week: April 8 – I Know Leopard

April 8th 2019

Sydney quartet I Know Leopard offer up their long-awaited and luxurious debut, Love Is A Landmine. Brimming with unabashedly romantic synth-pop and shimmering 70s new wave, Love Is A Landmine is a self-knowingly retro album that eschews any pretence of self-consciousness, unafraid to delve into the sincere and the authentic in its quest to detail the myriad frustrations and ecstasies of new love. With tightly-wound songwriting, I Know Leopard deliver an eleven-track series of tangled love songs where pain and pleasure exist side-by-side, anchoring their musical sheen with earnest but sly and emotionally complicated lyricism. An explosion of emotion layered atop an endlessly stylish and playful homage to the music of the 1970s, I Know Leopard craft a glamorous and singular debut with Love Is A Landmine – one which you’re unlikely to hear matched any time soon.


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