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Randolph’s Leap Release Video From Forthcoming Album

• 23rd Mar 2014

On April 7, Randolph’s Leap will release their full-length debut album “proper” Clumsy Knot on Scotland’s newest micro-indie Lost Map Records. They’ll mark this special occasion in suitably rambunctious style with a launch show at Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow on Sat, Apr 5, with support from Sweet Baboo and Rachael Dadd.

In advance of this shindig and in cooperation with THE SKINNY, Randolph’s Leap present the ingenious and funny video for ‘Foolishness of Youth’, directed by Ben Cowie and Alan Cameron at Wake Up Advice. It features singer/songwriter Adam Ross singing successive lines of the tune while variously cycling, kayaking, ballroom dancing, bathing, swinging (on a swing) and more, simultaneously via the reigning televisual medium of our times Youtube, in a delirious and playfully meta desktop montage (maximise your screen for full effect).

Those familiar with Randolph’s Leap’s already extensive oeuvre – which spans several mini albums, compilations and EPs, many of them self-released yet generating such a buzz as to make the band one of the most blogged-about names of 2012 according to The Hype Machine and see them invited to perform two BBC 6Music live sessions for Marc Riley – will perhaps question what qualifies Clumsy Knot as their “arrival proper”. Newcomers to the Leap’s bountiful charms meanwhile may ponder: “how come sometimes they’re eight people, and other times they’re just a guy?”, not to mention, “which one’s Randolph”? So many questions, and we will endeavour to answer them all in due course.

Just over half of the songs on Clumsy Knot are home-recordings. However, don’t be surprised to sometimes see the lesser-spotted Randolphs recording as a gang in such environs as producer/engineer Pete MacDonald’s house (formerly a Polish Embassy and home to Teenage Fanclub), and (whisper it) even proper studios – with the exuberantly joyful ‘Hermit’ proving just what they’re capable of unleashed upon pro gear (that is, knowingly-dodgy lyrical puns to the tune of “living like a hermit/ hermit the frog”).

Tying together all these many disparate strands of the band in a comprehensive if not always necessarily elegant way – and you understand the title, Clumsy Knot now – Randolph’s Leap’s utterly delightful debut album is the strongest single statement yet as to just why this band are one of the most loveable new forces in folksome indie-pop. For the way it surveys everything the band are about, Adam describes Clumsy Knot as “my favourite album we’ve made”.