Sproston’s first forays into music were from early childhood aged twelve, writing acoustic songs with friends and performing around their hometown of Prestwich.
This led to a support slot for then local giant Stella Marconi at the iconic Dry Bar in the Northern Quarter. From here, Kieran had the bug to keep performing.
In 2009, the three piece indie rock The Rocket was formed and would continue to grow within the Manchester music scene for the next five years.
Following this, Kieran continued to teach themself music production at home around full time work. Finding time to write and record in their home setup, Kinnykoose’s first release came in 2018 with “Take Control”. Further releases were penned and uploaded to Souncloud over the following years, with the aforementioned single being developed into a drip-fed EP.
Kieran has now taken the leap to now study music production academically and plans for solo project Kinnykoose to bring their melancholy and emotive style into producing work by other artists alongside original projects.
There’s a stylistic flair to Kinnykoose’s tracks that often utilises classic 808 kick drums with sub basses to create something reminiscent of a hip hop beat. The catch, however, is Sproston’s background in writing sad folk rock songs based songs on acoustic guitar, so the resulting sound is a bit of neither genre. Kieran has long been inspired by an eclectic range of music with earliest memories being soundtracked by “It’s Raining Men” by The Weathergirls and currently aspires to the lyrical prowess of Arctic Monkeys and Kendrick Lamar (a superb hypothetical collaboration).
Tracks by Kinnykoose often lend themselves to exploring dark and uncomfortable emotions whilst at times retaining a sense of humour; there’s a lot of reverb flying around to decorate the ambiance but a dry beat driving the track is more often than not present.