Dreamy Duo Penny & Sparrow Release Lefty album

Indie-folk pair Penny & Sparrow released their latest album, Lefty on the 31st of January via I Love You / Thirty Tigers.

Inspired by an eclectic mix of influences, from Simon & Garfunkel to Slim Whitman, The Swell Season, Bon Iver, and even the compositions of Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim, the pair craft a distinct sonic ecosystem that contains ethereal indie folk, raw balladry, tender chamber pop and experimental introspective storytelling, reminiscent of (but certainly not bound to) the likes of Sufjan Stevens, Father John Misty and The Lumineers. The sonic landscape of Lefty meanders through the above as well as venturing into brooding avant-garde electronica of the ilk of James Blake, Sufjan Stevens, Father John Misty, and The Lumineers. 

Lefty was etched into being in a friend’s garden shed commandeered by the duo. The album is suitably sprawling and dreamy, yet raw and earnest; a 20-track odyssey through styles and moods and ideas. Steered by Penny & Sparrow’s harmonies that glimmer and ache, intimate lyrical passages and reverb-soaked instrumentation, the album flows between electronic and acoustic with tender ease. There are acoustic reflections and intimate balladry (‘Mattering Ram’, ‘Alphabet’, ‘Country’), airy champer pop, (‘My Lover Was A Great Man’) and to glitchy electro/ambient (‘Even – Keeled’, ‘Sea Foam’, ‘Idea Baby’), and everything in between. The album’s synergetic splendor is not easy to articulate and is better experienced with a full and careful listen.  

The duo shared: “Lefty is a long collection of both real and made up things. We wrote poetry, true stories, literary fan fiction, horror, erotica, slice-of-life vignettes, dream scenarios, saloon conversations, elegies, a toast, a few confessions and at least two love letters. All of them belong together because each one is an extension of us, of the things we love. We are the ties that bind Lefty.”

Lefty Album Tracklist:

1. Mattering Ram

2. Even-Keeled

3. Alphabet

4. Arm Candy (feat. Annika Bennett)

5. Cheers to Good Friends

6. Breakdown

LISTEN: Penny & Sparrow – ‘Breakdown’

Listen to the full album here: Penny & Sparrow – Lefty

7. You Mean too Much to Me

8. Sea Foam

9. Country 

10. Idea Baby

11. French Braid

12. Jeopardy

13. Ketamine (feat. Tobe Nwigwe)

14. My Lover Was a Great Man

15. Ziplock

16. Milo, oh my – Live at The Gold Room, Sidewinder, CO – October 1969

17. Dogs of War (feat. Joseph)

18. Marius

19. O-Ren Ishii (feat. David Michael Wyatt)

20. Crawling Out