Leisure Birds has been played on NTS in shows including No Weapon Is Absolute, featured first on 13 November 2024. Songs played include Silver Runner.

Crawling out from the primordial muck of rhythm and reverb, Leisure Birds concoct a hallucinatory brew of squealing keyboards, thumping floor-toms, stabbing guitars, chant-like vocals and sinuous basslines. Hailing from Minneapolis, Leisure Birds sound like a lost artifact of the first psychedelic era; the British Invasion meeting swamp boogie along the muddy banks of the Mississippi.

Born out of the demise of two of Minneapolis' cherished rock institutions — syncopated whiskey-throat bawlers Thunder in the Valley and the blaze-of-jubilant-loose that was…