Grow (KLP169)
Grow, the latest album from
Little Wings, is meant
by creator/founder
Kyle Field as a candy bar-sized bite chunk of musical
wisperia, a taste of
Little Wings between meals, the scent of trouble
on a misty day, the foghorn blowing through the night. The last
Little
Wings album,
Magic Wand (KLP161) attempted to refine high
realism. It succeeded, and now
Kyle Field can go back to his experiments
in the realm of the absurd, bizarre and transitional. There are
interviews with random characters and the buzz of delight interspersed
between the songs, which begin and end in outer space. This is the first
in what will be a series of
Little Wings releases, spontaneous bursts
of excitement and repose; or maybe it is a one of a kind object created
to be experienced by the lovers of musical adventurism. It is hard to
tell what will happen next.
“Let those who bristle at the uniquely American brand of sincerity
started ostensibly by Walt Whitman and handed from man to man right up
to Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lebowski (you think he’s fictional, but
he’s not) and David Berman beware. For it is this kind of sincerity – a
breezy acceptance of the world in all its damaged glory but still
possessing secret wonders in the simplest falling leaves or teary kisses
– that embraces all that it is to live should you choose to accept it
The Tribe of Awestruck Wonderment can now count freaky-ass stoner boy
Kyle Field and his
Little Wings as one of its silently but steadily
growing crew, and on the soulful and deeply strange
Light Green Leaves
(KLP139), you can feel him winning one for the whole team.”
– Philadelphia Weekly