Album Review: Sky Larkin - Kaleide

Words: Kieran Toms

Sky Larkin - 'Kaleide'

Sky Larkin release their second effort, 'Kaleide', the follow up to last year's debut 'The Golden Spike'. It starts off very brightly with 'Still Windmills', a recently released single. One of the record’s highlights, a song which is no departure from the previous release, being a well-crafted three minute pop song.

Sky Larkin Freebies

Leeds trio Sky Larkin are giving away a couple of new recordings, which they've been keeping up their sleeve. Speaking of sleeves, the artwork is pretty swish. There's a twisted simplicity to it.


My first thoughts on the new tracks were "WOAH". Of course, that was more to do with the fact that the mp3s were 10+mb each. Pesky 320kbps bitrate. The second thought was that "yeah, these are pretty good".

'Smarts' carries the same sort of dynamism that characterised their debut album, 'The Golden Spike', which dropped in February this year. In fact, it was recorded with John Goodmanson, producer of that album and thus expresses a similarly unhinged sound which I felt made the tracks seem overly messy. He does a grand job however on the acoustic recording of 'Matador', capturing the enchanting essence of its folk transformation.

SKY LARKIN - SMARTS

'Smarts' is downloadable above, 'Matador' can be got on the Sky Larkin website.

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