"Tasked with creating the idyllic segues of Wes Anderson’s new reboot of The Shining, Romain Savary puts you in a box with a fox, a computer from 1998 and a bottle of port. It isn’t garden variety, it’s simply a garden; there are bulbous purples and meek yellow-oranges, and where they begin and end is anyone’s guess. It isn’t the pastoral Impressionism of the prior Leopardo LP, on which you can almost hear the sunshine, taste the mountain tops. Just as the Velvets often lived in the oblivion of sunbeams, Leopardo knows the finer things in life are quiet anticipation, rigorous conversation on a scenic drive, minneolas, gusts of wind. Like with the band Cheveu (remember?) you can’t help speculating on a film out of tunes like “Temperature”. There are people who enjoy reading Rimbaud on oceanic vacation as much as they like blowing lines off a washing machine in a Midwest winter basement, and this is for that type of lifer."
- Brandon Gaffney
credits
released September 22, 2023

Written, played and recorded by Romain Savary
Backing vocals on track 1 by Isumi Grichting & Radiana Basso
Backing vocals on track 4 by Isumi Grichting & Severin Bierli
Backing vocal & additional guitar on track 8 by Blaise Yerly
Mixed by Michael Francey except tracks 1-2-5 mixed by Romain Savary
Mastering by Carl Saff

Art by Thomas Simon & Julien Marmar
Graphic design by Gabrielle d'Alessandro
Pictures by Adélie Vertès, Radiana Basso & Romain Savary

CMR002