The Coventry-based indie artist, Leroybroughtflowers, has released his ruminatively mused single, Woodlark; the intrinsically melodic ballad makes no bones about cutting to the core of fraught emotion. Yet the poetry in the lyrics and the caressive piano progressions soften the sting of the candour.

In Woodlark Leroybroughtflowers brought all the intimacy of a bedroom soaked in melancholy and dripping with emotion – knowing how to effortlessly strike each minor piano chord to beautifully hammer home the delicate, waning urgency in each moment.

There is no evading the sense that Leroybroughtflowers was deeply connected to the sentiment in Woodlark, which may differ from the rest of his soundscapes that are malleable to his exploratory experimentalism. One thing that remains a constant are the nuanced jazz roots, which are barely enough to grasp in Woodlark with its sombre indie timbre, but the jazz roots can be read in the almost transcendent freedom in the textures.

Leroybroughtflowers said:

“Woodlark is a coming-of-age ballad inspired by leaving my hometown and my first love. The protagonist has accepted his life as a wanderer, and his inability to stay for his loved ones or express his love.

It is the bittersweet feeling of wanting to forget but also wanting to remember everything. It is a love letter to a life of endless wandering and teenage love.”

Amelia Vandergast, Executive Editor at A&R Factory said:

“Woodlark beautifully yet bitterly bridges the gap between the ornate soundscapes of the likes of Nils Frahm and the evocative poised alt-indie folk style of Tom Odell and Daughter. It’s a stunning aural effigy to Leroybroughtflowers’ honesty and humility.”