PLAYFUL, cinematic and memorable – you’d expect this from an album from The Leisure Society, considering band members have previously written film scores for a brace of Shane Meadows films.
Into… begins with a 1920s-style title track, then into the faster, more eighties-sounding Dust On The Dancefloor, a solid start which stands up to repeated listens. Although sounding similar in places to Fleet Foxes, particularly on Our Hearts Burn Like Damp Matches, there’s a warmth to the tracks that lifts Into… into a category of its own.
And the music is so evocative, it’s near-impossible not to hear You Could Keep Me Talking and imagine being at a festival, and This Phantom Life’s bouncy strings and guitars could easily get air time over the end credits of countless documentaries or upbeat movies. Fun and uplifting, this is the Leisure Society album you’ll tell your friends about when they hit the mainstream.
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