Little Wings (USA) WOMBARRA

Little Wings play shows down the east coast in February!

Kyle Field (AKA Little Wings) has been performing and recording idiosyncratic indie folk since the late 90s alongside the likes of Feist, Angel Olsen, M. Ward, Real Estate, Phil Elverum (The Microphones/Mount Eerie) and many more; a cult hero to a generation of fans, even if his music has never reached a mass audience.

“The main thing that I fell in love with about the music was how natural it sounded, the ease with which it seemed to have been written and recorded. The lyrics can be funny, pretty, heartfelt, conversational, and the melodies and chord progressions are always super nice and unexpected. The types of chords that Kyle uses have greatly influenced my own songwriting and the sound of Real Estate.” - Martin Courtney, Vice Magazine

As a musician and visual artist Kyle Field has outputted an astoundingly amorphous body of work, but it’s his relationship with the ocean – surfing, cavorting, drifting – at his home near Malibu, California that acts as gateway to his inspiration. The salt-encrusted joy and loneliness of the coastline seems ever present in so much of Kyle's work. It's this connection to the natural world that so many artists deeply aspire to.

A Little Wings live show is a truly special thing. Whether performing solo, armed with just a nylon string guitar or backed by ever-willing local music makers (as with this tour which will feature members of Blue Divers and Monnone Alone), Kyle's pathos-and-humour lyrical flow bounces ping-pong-like between David Berman and Lil Wayne.

To commemorate the occasion of this Australian tour (his first in six years), four recent Little Wings albums are being released on limited edition cassette by Well Placed Things (a new sub-label of Spunk Records), Lost And Lonesome and Brierfield Flood Press. These albums are: People, a full-band studio album from last year; Froggy's, a stripped back lo-fi effort; Ropes in Paradise, a studio record of country and western covers; and Zephyr Jr, an Australian exclusive album – solo acoustic versions of what will be a full band album later down the track. The cassettes feature new artwork, hand-drawn by Kyle especially for these editions.

Thu 20/2: The Vanguard, Sydney NSW (w/ Mick Turner, Good Morning)

Fri 21/2: Wombarra Bowling Club, Wombarra NSW (w/ Mick Turner, Good Morning)

Sat 22/2: Tanswell’s Commercial Hotel, Beechworth VIC

Sun 23/2: The Palais, Hepburn Springs VIC (w/ Good Morning)

Mon 24/2: Thornbury Bowling Club, Melbourne VIC

Tue 25/2: Fitzroy Library, Melbourne VIC (rsvp via Fitzroy Library)