Overnight by Shird Leopart

221st solo album by Shird Leopart

"With Overnight, the new five-track improvisational suite from one-man project Shird Leopart, we’re invited into a world where instinct, circuitry, and atmosphere intertwine in real time. Drawn entirely from a single livestream performance, the album feels less like a crafted studio work and more like an intercepted transmission — something raw, alive, and unrepeatable.

Leopard channels the ghost electricity of Cabaret Voltaire circa 1981 and the intimate, lo-fi melancholy of Robert Rental, yet Overnight stands firmly on its own. A dry, skeletal Roland TR-606 ticks through much of the record like a nervous mechanical heartbeat, giving the swirling synths and spectral guitar lines something to orbit around. Everything else comes through as a shifting mist: loops that fray at the edges, melodies that hesitate just long enough to feel human, textures that seem to evaporate as soon as you notice them.

Because the entire album is improvised in a single take, each track carries the thrill of discovery. You can sense decisions being made on the fly — a chord stretching into feedback, a rhythmic figure mutating, a phrase folding back on itself. Imperfections aren’t blemishes here; they’re emotional signatures. They remind you that Overnight is not trying to be perfect. It’s trying to be present.

There’s a lived-in warmth to the recording, a feeling that you’re in the room with Shird Leopart as he coaxes these sounds into being. At times the music resembles a half-remembered broadcast; at others, it feels like you’re eavesdropping on a private ritual conducted in flickering light. The coherence that emerges across the five pieces is subtle but undeniable — a narrative formed not through structure, but through mood, momentum, and the tension of improvisation itself.

In a landscape crowded with digitally airbrushed productions, Overnight stands out as something beautifully vulnerable: a snapshot of an artist letting the moment lead, and trusting the moment enough to document it. It’s a record that breathes.

A quietly haunted, strangely luminous work — and a compelling chapter in the evolving sonic world of Shird Leopart."

> Oblique Sounds, 2025

Hypnotic sound structures that blur the line between composition and ritual.

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