Nick Hemming’s The Leisure Society are back with a new album ‘Alone Aboard the Ark‘ which promises to offer a more diverse array of sounds and inventive orchestration.
They’ve gone for the ‘live feel’ in production qualities opting for recording onto a 2″ tape machine and a 1970s mixing desk that can be found at kinks frontman ray davies’ konk studios. Nick Etwell’s (trumpeter to Mumford and Sons) brass lines permeate ‘one man and his fug‘, whilst the electric guitar lines heard on ‘the last in a long line‘ were the product of Christian and Mike’s two gretches recorded playing at opposite ends of the studio. Even the piano part for ‘we go together‘ underwent a nocturnal reinvention when Christian had ‘a moment of inspiration, whilst deeply drunk at midnight listening to the playback’.
Album Trailer
Free Track: The Sober Scent Of Paper
The band are offering ‘The Sober Scent Of Paper‘ as a free download which you can grab below:
No Longer available
Tracklisting
1. Another Sunday Psalm
2. A Softer Voice Takes Longer Hearing
3. Fight For Everyone
4. Tearing The Arches Down
5. The Sober Scent Of Paper
6. All I Have Seen
7. Everyone Understands
8. Life Is A Cabriolet
9. One Man And His Fug
10. Forever Shall We Wait
11. We Go Together
12. The Last In A Long Line
April Tour Dates
Apr 12 The Kazimier, Liverpool,
Apr 13 The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Apr 14 Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Apr 15 Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich
Apr 16 The Haunt, Brighton
Apr 17 The Glee Club, Birmingham
Apr 18 Thekla, Bristol,
Apr 20 King Tuts, Glasgow
Apr 21 The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Apr 22 Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Apr 25 Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Alone Aboard The Ark is released on 1 April 2013 via Full Time Hobby (PIAS)
