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“The trio [Leopold and His Fiction] is a trip to watch, boiling and smashing a diverse range of musical genre’s that is both ethereal and bombastic.”
-Campus Circle Magazine (Aug 2010)
“Golden Friends” is one of those rare blues/rock hybrids that all but defies “simple” descriptions, with vocals that deftly blend Jimmy Page and Jack White in a raw recording that does everything within its power to bring the live experience into the studio, whatever the cost. Hear! Hear! Music Blog
“The dark, brooding track [Golden Friends] screams and echos like a mashup of The Doors and Wolfmother… This is a song that will surely help launch them to wider recognition..” Front Porch Musings –Blog (March 2010)
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"With a knack for vintage sound and vintage gear, San Francisco’s Leopold and His Fiction provide expansive lo-fi rock and roll with varying shades of country and blues." www.SpOOOnful.com
“Leopold And His Fiction play dirty. But they won this week's CMJ Sonicbids Spotlight fair and square.” –CMJ
Leopold and his Fiction selected as a top LP of 2009 by www.TheBayBridged.com
"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
"Their convergence results in angsty blues-flavored rock ‘n’ roll, that when paired with James’ story-inspired lyrics evokes the feel of Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home. " –Relix Magazine
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/organist Jon Sortland contribute to a very diverse sound through personal interests.
Together LEOPOLD AND HIS FICTION offers 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.
“Leopold and his Fiction have grown-- via a couple of line up changes -- into the critically lauded, psychedelic-vintage-garage, six-legged rock beast that it is today.”-- Metromix - Detroit
Pick of the Week this week at highly respected bloggers HearYa.com
“…Splashing snippets of the (Northern California) region's depleting freak-folk aesthetic and sopping them up with a Stooges-esque barroom stomp, (Leopold and his Fiction) vocalist Daniel James invokes the familiar, pure rock 'n' roll charisma afforded only the deftest students of its origins.” -- Portland Mercury
"Groovy ‘60s bop...sung by James in a hard-edge haughty voice somewhere between Van Morrison, Jim Morrison, and Eric Burdon being channeled by Jeffrey Lee Pierce. Straight-up rot gut." --Big Takeover
Website: www.myspace.com/leopoldandhisfiction
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Leopold and his Fiction Golden Friends live at SXSW
