The State Room Presents
World Tour '25
PENNY & SPARROW
Erin Rae
FRI, 17 OCT 2025 at 08:00PM MDT
Ages: 21 & Over
Doors Open: 07:00PM
OnSale: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 at 09:00AM MDT
Announcement: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 at 08:00AM MDT
A wise wizard once said: “when in doubt, always follow your nose.”
The last album from Penny and Sparrow,
Olly Olly,
was a work of revelation and
liberation.
A search for and an embrace of the self. I imagine they were left with a headscratcher of
a question: well, shit. Where do you go from there?
Fortunately, they listened to the wizard and followed their noses backwards to
fi
nd their
way forward.
Aiming to strip away pretense and invite experimentation, they commandeered a garden
shed from a friend and retro
fi
tted it to make a twenty-track album that is vast, weird, and
wholly unexpected.
If
Lefty
is anything, it is the journal of Penny and Sparrow’s inner child. Dog-eared, lock
busted open. On its pages the sketches of dreams, nightmares, erotica, and literary fan
fi
ction graf
fi
ti the margins of poetry, elegies, and love letters in the wild colors of
saxophone blue, electronic pink, and blood harmony red.
Beautifully varied and richly rendered, it is an album that wanders from theme to theme,
style to style, exultation to tragedy. Yet it is never lost. If anything, it is at play.
United by its intimate vocals and aching harmonies, its acoustic laments trickle into
ethereal pop only to surge into whimsical ballads and crest into grand hooligan anthems
that sway gently down to familiar shores where melancholic ballads tell of love lost,
found, forgotten, and remembered.
Andy and Kyle have written some albums in blood. Others they’ve whispered to the sea.
This one they danced in the sky with smiles on their faces.
Lefty
feels like not just a
celebration of their journey beyond the bounds of their traditional genre, but as if they
have rediscovered the joy in music by honoring the sounds that inspired two boys
growing up in Texas to one day make the damn stuff themselves.
- Pierce Brown,
author and friend
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