Leptirica, by Leptirica

Leptirica

by Leptirica

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Shameful Footsteps I sit in the back-seat of my mother's car, as a child. I look out the window: images and music blur together, through familiar speakers. They leave a lasting memory, It's deepest disembodied peace... Wondrous music... Favorite track: Isn't It Too Dreamy.

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1.	Church Candy 04:00	buy track
2.	Bats 04:10	buy track
3.	DCIM_0001 03:03	buy track
4.	Imago 04:34	buy track
5.	Notches 04:18	buy track
6.	Coupe Moi 03:00	buy track
7.	Isn't It Too Dreamy 02:39	buy track
8.	The Super (Remastered) 03:02	buy track

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Leptirica is a cavernous yet intricate package rooted in a love of synthesized sound, balancing transformation with a criticism of modern struggles. The intimate debut remains danceable with electronics, drum machines and guitar, pulling influences everywhere from Alice Deejay to Clan of Xymox to Scott Walker.

With songs that began as poems from as far back as 2013 in Flagstaff, Arizona and home-recording taking place in Tucson from 2018 to 2021 with mixing in Brooklyn, the timeline results in a multifaceted view of the musician. One stretching from an era of uncertain faith, though a “deconversion,” and into a new world of spirituality, mortality and sexuality.

Surreal dance tracks progress from romantic visions to heavier EBM production, then manage to blend to the two styles seamlessly — with Kell’s voice like volcanic glass. Connecting with the themes of metamorphosis and gender identity, the industrial rhythms work as a literal and metaphorical breaking down of the old.

The project stems from a dysfunctional relationship with songwriting, where music can either be intricately polished from rubble, or seemingly materialized from another world — a celebration of metamorphosis, even with all the complications that go with it.

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released November 18, 2022

All songs and parts written and produced by Kell
Mixed and mastered by Kell at home

Artwork by Trever Ducote
Photography by Rachel Wark

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Leptirica Brooklyn, New York

What started as hymns steeped with apostasy from departing Christian fundamentalism became parched in the desert by confronting a new sense of self-worth.

Leptirica is kell and their very tired synthesizers.

kell is Leptirica and her vampiric transformation—an anti-baptism: “deconversion at the mall.” ... more

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