Two years after the success of Night Moves, a wander through a threatening nocturnal Los Angeles, H Burns returns with a new record for twilight. Kid We Own the Summer finds its identity between a few landmarks such as David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti’s California, the intimacy of Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town, the relative calmness of Suicide’s second album, and the elegant melancholy of The National.
In order to compose, Renaud Brustlein aka H Burns decided to reinvent himself once again. He didn’t repeat the live configuration that he used in 2013 with Off the Map, an “electric storm” recorded in Chicago, with a band, in a single week, with the legendary Steve Albini. For Kid We Own the Summer, the composer started working in his home studio, by gradual touches, because there’s no place like home.