PENNY & SPARROW’s ‘Breakdown’ – sprawling, dreamy, raw and honest.

DREAMY US indie-folk pop duo PENNY & SPARROW today share new video for lead single ‘Breakdown’ taken from last month’s ‘Lefty’ album, released via I Love You/Thirty Tigers.

Comprising of Andy Baxter and Kyle Jahnke, PENNY & SPARROW have opened for the likes of Josh Ritter, The Shouting Matches (a side project by Bon Iver’s frontman, Justin Vernon), and Johnnyswim, and are inspired by a wide-ranging mix of influences including Simon & Garfunkel, Slim Whitman, and the compositions of Broadway legend, Stephen Sondheim.

‘Lefty’ was crafted in a friend’s garden shed commandeered by the duo. The resulting album suitably sprawling and dreamy, raw and earnest, a 20-track odyssey through styles, moods and ideas.

“The album is a long collection of both real and made-up things,” said Baxter. “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.”

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(Photo (c) Claire Schaper)