Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
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2842886 | Play | Fight for Everyone | 03:49 Tools | |
2842900 | Play | Save It for Someone Who Cares | 00:00 Tools | |
2842899 | Play | The Last of the Melting Snow | 00:00 Tools | |
2842895 | Play | We Were Wasted | 02:56 Tools | |
2842905 | Play | A Matter of Time | 00:00 Tools | |
2842902 | Play | A Short Weekend Begins With Longing | 00:00 Tools | |
2842903 | Play | The Sleeper | 03:51 Tools | |
2842889 | Play | The Sober Scent of Paper | 03:38 Tools | |
2842924 | Play | Pancake Day | 00:00 Tools | |
2842901 | Play | Dust On the Dancefloor | 00:00 Tools | |
2842927 | Play | A Passing Thought | 00:00 Tools | |
2842904 | Play | Into the Murky Water | 00:00 Tools | |
2842907 | Play | Love's Enormous Wings | 00:00 Tools | |
2842906 | Play | The Darkest Place I Know | 00:00 Tools | |
2842909 | Play | Come to Your Senses | 00:00 Tools | |
2842912 | Play | Are We Happy? | 00:00 Tools | |
2842887 | Play | Another Sunday Psalm | 03:09 Tools | |
2842913 | Play | This Phantom Life | 00:00 Tools | |
2842911 | Play | A Fighting Chance | 00:00 Tools | |
2842908 | Play | Our Hearts Burn Like Damp Matches | 00:00 Tools | |
2842910 | Play | You Could Keep Me Talking | 00:00 Tools | |
2842888 | Play | A Softer Voice Takes Longer Hearing | 00:00 Tools | |
2842890 | Play | All I Have Seen | 04:33 Tools | |
2842891 | Play | Tearing the Arches Down | 00:00 Tools | |
2842914 | Play | Although We All Are Lost | 00:00 Tools | |
2842915 | Play | The Hungry Years | 00:00 Tools | |
2842893 | Play | Forever Shall We Wait | 00:00 Tools | |
2842929 | Play | Give Yourself A Fighting Chance | 00:00 Tools | |
2842892 | Play | Everyone Understands | 00:00 Tools | |
2842918 | Play | Better Written Off (Than Written Down) | 00:00 Tools | |
2842917 | Play | I Shall Forever Remain an Amateur | 00:00 Tools | |
2842894 | Play | Life Is a Cabriolet | 00:00 Tools | |
2842919 | Play | Just Like the Knife | 00:00 Tools | |
2842896 | Play | One Man and His Fug | 00:00 Tools | |
2842897 | Play | We Go Together | 06:29 Tools | |
2842928 | Play | Cars (Gary Numan Cover) | 04:45 Tools | |
2842898 | Play | The Last in a Long Line | 00:00 Tools | |
2842916 | Play | Flying | 00:00 Tools | |
48204633 | Play | The Fine Art Of Hanging On | 00:00 Tools | |
2842930 | Play | Inchworm | 00:00 Tools | |
2842920 | Play | Weir Road | 00:00 Tools | |
2842921 | Play | It Dissolves in the Writing | 00:00 Tools | |
2842922 | Play | Notions of What Is Right | 00:00 Tools | |
2842925 | Play | A Richer Dust | 00:00 Tools | |
2842932 | Play | A Short Weekend Begins With Longing (Original Demo) | 00:00 Tools | |
2842923 | Play | Wanderin' Star | 00:00 Tools | |
2842926 | Play | C'mon Anon | 00:00 Tools | |
2842933 | Play | Bona Fide | 00:00 Tools | |
2842931 | Play | Save It For Someone Who Cares - Single Version | 00:00 Tools | |
2842935 | Play | If God Did Give Me a Choice | 00:00 Tools | |
2842934 | Play | The Wayfarer | 00:00 Tools | |
48204634 | Play | Nothing Like This | 00:00 Tools | |
48204635 | Play | Tall Black Cabins | 00:00 Tools | |
88990412 | Play | GOD HAS TAKEN A VACATION | 00:00 Tools | |
2842937 | Play | Cars | 00:00 Tools | |
88990413 | Play | A Bird, A Bee, Humanity | 00:00 Tools | |
2842939 | Play | Something | 00:00 Tools | |
88990414 | Play | Overheard | 00:00 Tools | |
48204637 | Play | The Undefeated Ego | 00:00 Tools | |
48204636 | Play | Outside In | 00:00 Tools | |
2842936 | Play | Save It for Someone Who Cares (Single Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204638 | Play | As The Shadows Form | 00:00 Tools | |
48204640 | Play | You'll Never Know When It Breaks | 00:00 Tools | |
48204639 | Play | You Are What You Take | 00:00 Tools | |
48204641 | Play | I'm a Setting Sun | 00:00 Tools | |
48204642 | Play | All Is Now | 00:00 Tools | |
48204643 | Play | Wide Eyes At Villains | 00:00 Tools | |
88990415 | Play | Beat Of A Drum | 00:00 Tools | |
88990416 | Play | Arrivals & Departures | 00:00 Tools | |
48204644 | Play | Colombia! | 00:00 Tools | |
2842943 | Play | Inchworm (Hans Christian Anderson) | 00:00 Tools | |
88990417 | Play | I'll pay for it now | 00:00 Tools | |
88990418 | Play | LET ME BRING YOU DOWN | 00:00 Tools | |
88990419 | Play | Be You Wherever | 00:00 Tools | |
88990420 | Play | Don't Want To Do It Again | 00:00 Tools | |
88990421 | Play | Arundel Tomb | 00:00 Tools | |
88990422 | Play | LEAVE ME TO SLEEP | 00:00 Tools | |
88990423 | Play | There Are No Rules Around Here | 00:00 Tools | |
88990424 | Play | You've Got the Universe | 00:00 Tools | |
2842948 | Play | Give Yourself A Fighting Chanc | 00:00 Tools | |
88990425 | Play | Ways To Be Saved | 00:00 Tools | |
88990426 | Play | Mistakes On The Field - Part II | 00:00 Tools | |
88990427 | Play | Mistakes On The Field - Part I | 00:00 Tools | |
2842944 | Play | Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard (Originally by Paul Simon) | 00:00 Tools | |
2842946 | Play | Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard | 00:00 Tools | |
2842970 | Play | A Short Weekend | 00:00 Tools | |
2842955 | Play | The Last of the Melting Snow (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204645 | Play | We'll Be Together Again (Bonus Track) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204646 | Play | White Trashed (Bonus Track) | 00:00 Tools | |
2842953 | Play | If God Did Give Me A Chance | 00:00 Tools | |
2842976 | Play | Christmas Mistakes | 00:00 Tools | |
48204647 | Play | I'm The Setting Sun | 00:00 Tools | |
88990428 | Play | Mistakes On The Field (Part I) | 00:00 Tools | |
88990429 | Play | Mistakes On The Field (Part II) | 00:00 Tools | |
2842952 | Play | Save It For Someone Who Cares [Single Version] | 00:00 Tools | |
48204648 | Play | The Last Of The MS | 00:00 Tools | |
48204649 | Play | We Were Wasted (On The Ride) [TLOBF Exclusive] | 00:00 Tools | |
2842965 | Play | A Matter Of Time (Radio Edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204650 | Play | Fight For Everyone (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
88990430 | Play | A BIRD A BEE HUMANITY | 00:00 Tools | |
2842950 | Play | A short weekend begins with longing - Original Demo | 00:00 Tools | |
2842967 | Play | better written off | 00:00 Tools | |
2842966 | Play | Me And Julio Down By the Schoolyard (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
2843018 | Play | Something (The Beatles cover) | 00:00 Tools | |
2842991 | Play | Into The Murky Water (live on BBC 6 Music) | 00:00 Tools | |
2842969 | Play | The Sober Scent of Paper (official stream) | 00:00 Tools | |
2842987 | Play | Monkey Hair Hide | 00:00 Tools | |
2843006 | Play | You Could Keep Me Talking (live on BBC 6 Music) | 00:00 Tools | |
88990431 | Play | Arrivals Departures | 00:00 Tools | |
48204651 | Play | Pancake Day (Streatham Mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
2842985 | Play | This Phantom Life (Edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
2843045 | Play | The Phantom Life (live on BBC 6 Music) | 00:00 Tools | |
88990432 | Play | Mistakes On The Field | 00:00 Tools | |
88990433 | Play | Mistakes on the Field, Pt. II | 00:00 Tools | |
88990434 | Play | Mistakes on the Field, Pt. I | 00:00 Tools | |
48204652 | Play | Something (The Beatles) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204653 | Play | Dust On The Dance Floor | 00:00 Tools | |
2842957 | Play | Pancake Day - Single Version | 00:00 Tools | |
2842984 | Play | Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard (Saturday Sessions 2011) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204656 | Play | 2000 Miles (Pretenders Cover) | 00:00 Tools | |
2843050 | Play | The Last Of The Melting Snow (Live On The Dermot O'Leary Show) | 00:00 Tools | |
2843017 | Play | We Were Wasted - The Leisure Society | 00:00 Tools | |
2842959 | Play | A Short Weekend Begins With Longing (Original Demo) - Single Version | 00:00 Tools | |
2842983 | Play | Something[The Beatles cover] | 00:00 Tools | |
48204657 | Play | We'll Be Together Again | 00:00 Tools | |
88990435 | Play | Last of the Melting Snow - 10th Anniversary Live Performance | 00:00 Tools | |
48204654 | Play | Short Weekend | 00:00 Tools | |
2842958 | Play | A Passing Thought - Single Version | 00:00 Tools | |
2842961 | Play | Cars (Gary Numan Cover) - Single Version | 00:00 Tools | |
48204659 | Play | White Trashed | 00:00 Tools | |
48204655 | Play | Something (Beatles) | 00:00 Tools | |
2842964 | Play | If God Did Give Me A Choice - Single Version | 00:00 Tools | |
48204660 | Play | Colombia | 00:00 Tools | |
2842962 | Play | The Wayfarer - Single Version | 00:00 Tools | |
48204658 | Play | We Were Wasted (On The Ride) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204665 | Play | A Little Respect | 00:00 Tools | |
48204676 | Play | A Little Respect (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
2842973 | Play | Bona Fide - Single Version | 00:00 Tools | |
2843079 | Play | We Were Wasted (Tyrannosaur ost) | 00:00 Tools | |
88990436 | Play | A Bird, A Bee, Humantiy | 00:00 Tools | |
2842963 | Play | All I Have Seen (Remixed by White Label) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204662 | Play | THE LEISURE SOCIETY | 00:00 Tools | |
48204661 | Play | Our Hearts Burn Like Damp Match | 00:00 Tools | |
48204670 | Play | God Has Taken a Vacation (Richelieu Acoustic Demo) | 00:00 Tools | |
88990437 | Play | The Last of the Melting Snow (Marc Riley Session 15/12/2008) | 00:00 Tools | |
2843002 | Play | We Were Wasted (On The Ride) TLS5mp3 | 00:00 Tools | |
88990438 | Play | MISTAKES ON THE FIELD (PART 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
2843078 | Play | A Pancake Thought | 00:00 Tools | |
48204664 | Play | The Phantom Life | 00:00 Tools | |
2843102 | Play | Our Hearts Burn Like Damp Matc | 00:00 Tools | |
48204666 | Play | In A Matter Of | 00:00 Tools | |
88990439 | Play | We Were Wasted (Marc Riley Session 15/12/2008) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204667 | Play | Blalock's Indie/Rock Playlist: May (2009) - 109 - The Last Of The Melting Snow | 00:00 Tools | |
48204668 | Play | The Last of the Melting Snow (blip.up) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204669 | Play | Love’s Enormous Wings | 00:00 Tools | |
2843091 | Play | Inchworm - The Leisure Society | 00:00 Tools | |
2842997 | Play | I Shall Forever Remain An Amate | 00:00 Tools | |
48204663 | Play | Save It For Someone Who Cares (Radio edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
88990440 | Play | Love's EnormousWings (Marc Riley session 15/12/2008) | 00:00 Tools | |
2843019 | Play | Fight For Everyone (Radio 2_Rip) | 00:00 Tools | |
2843029 | Play | I Don't Mind | 00:00 Tools | |
2842994 | Play | A Short Weekend Begins With Longing [Original Demo] | 00:00 Tools | |
2843071 | Play | Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard - Saturday Sessions 2011 | 00:00 Tools | |
2842978 | Play | Sorter Voice Takes Longer Hearing | 00:00 Tools | |
2843101 | Play | Save It For Someone Who Cares - Bandstand Busking Acoustic Session | 00:00 Tools | |
2843065 | Play | Better Written Off (Than Writte | 00:00 Tools | |
86900705 | Play | A Little Respect [Erasure] | 00:00 Tools | |
2843013 | Play | It Dissolves In the Writing (Bonus Track) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204671 | Play | Cars (Gary Newman cover) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204672 | Play | The Leisure Society - Dust On The Dancefloor | 00:00 Tools | |
88990441 | Play | God Has Take a Vacation | 00:00 Tools | |
2843054 | Play | This Phantom Life (Radio Edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204673 | Play | A Matter of Time (live on BBC 6 Music) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204674 | Play | Something (Beatles cover) | 00:00 Tools | |
2843064 | Play | Alone Aboard the Ark (album trailer) | 00:00 Tools | |
86900706 | Play | YOU LL NEVER KNOW WHEN IT BREAKS | 00:00 Tools | |
48204675 | Play | This Phantom Life (live on BBC 6 Music) | 00:00 Tools | |
86900707 | Play | Fight For Everyone - 6 Music Session 26/03/2013 | 00:00 Tools | |
86900708 | Play | All I Have Seen (Radio 2 Session, 26 Mar 2013) | 00:00 Tools | |
86900709 | Play | Forever Shall We Wait (Radio 2 Session, 26 Mar 2013) | 00:00 Tools | |
86900710 | Play | The Sober Scent Of Paper (Radio 2 Session, 26 Mar 2013) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204677 | Play | A Short Weekend Begins With Longing (Demo) | 00:00 Tools | |
2843105 | Play | I Shall Forever Remain An Amat | 00:00 Tools | |
88990442 | Play | Tyrannosaur | 00:00 Tools | |
88990443 | Play | Mistakes On The Field (Part 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
2843000 | Play | 01 Another Sunday Psalm | 00:00 Tools | |
88990444 | Play | Setting Sun | 00:00 Tools | |
48204679 | Play | Better Written Off (Than Writt | 00:00 Tools | |
86900711 | Play | Wanderin'Star | 00:00 Tools | |
48204680 | Play | The Leisure Society - A Matter Of Time | 00:00 Tools | |
48204681 | Play | The Last Of Melting Snow | 00:00 Tools | |
48204682 | Play | Colombia! (WMA'14) | 00:00 Tools | |
2843036 | Play | Cars (Gary Numan) | 00:00 Tools | |
48204683 | Play | Wanderin Star | 00:00 Tools | |
88990445 | Play | The Darkest Place I Know [The Sleeper, 2009] | 00:00 Tools | |
2842977 | Play | The Leisure Society: A Softer Voice Takes Longer Hearing | 00:00 Tools |
The Leisure Society is a British folk-pop band formed in Brighton in 2009 by Nick Hemming. Their debut single, "The Last Of The Melting Snow", was honoured with a 2009 Ivor Novello nomination for Best Song Musically & Lyrically. Their single "Save It For Someone Who Cares" was also nominated for the Ivor Novello in the same category in 2010, making the band one of very few consecutive nominees. The band released their album, Alone Aboard The Ark, in 2013 through Full Time Hobby. The album is being supported by an eleven date tour of the UK, commencing on April 12 at The Kazimier in Liverpool and ending on April 25 at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. The new LP - recorded at Kinks frontman Ray Davies‘ Konk Studios - is the follow up to 2011’s lauded Into The Murky Water, which the band toured in ever distinctive fashion, including a date at the London Barbican backed by the 40-piece Heritage Orchestra. Fittingly, Alone Aboard The Ark sees the band expanding their arcadian, Baroque pop sound with a more diverse array of sounds and inventive orchestration. Following a summer of rehearsals beside the River Ouse in Befordshire, The Leisure Society decamped to Konk Studios to begin recording the tracks that would become Alone Aboard The Ark. Having declared himself a fan of The Leisure Society, Kinks frontman Ray Davies (owner of Konk) originally sought out the band to help him arrange and record his new solo material, and also included the band in his curation of 2011’s Meltdown Festival on the South Bank. The genesis of The Leisure Society spans back to the friendship made by Nick Hemming and Christian Hardy in their hometown of Burton on Trent. When the pair relocated to London they fell in with the Brighton-based Wilkommen Collective, and with Helen Whitaker, Mike Siddell and Sebastian Hankins, came to form The Leisure Society. The single 'The Last of The Melting Snow' from their debut LP The Sleeper was nonimated for a 2009 Ivor Novello (alongside heavyweights such as Elbow & The Last Shadow Puppets), and the band joined an incredibly select group when a year later, 'Save It For Someone Who Cares' was also nominated for an Ivor. Lyrically, Alone Aboard The Ark is an album informed by a palette as eclectic as it's musical flesh. Album standout 'The Sober Scent of Paper' is a hair-raising, elegiac waltz informed somewhat unconsciously by the demise of Sylvia Plath: 'When I began writing‘ says Nick 'I didn’t know what it was going to be about. For some reason, the first line 'Chains dredge the great lake around you / Pull you along by the knots in your hair‘ made me think of her. I guess it’s quite a dark desolate image‘. Yet there's light to this shade, with 'Tearing The Arches Down' marrying a wryly observed narrative 'The boy with the bloodshot eyes / A legend in your lunchtime' to an ebullient chant. Over the summer, Nick’s 8 hours a day Olympic TV habit manifested inself in 'Fight For Everyone‘, which whilst celebrating British success, also considers those who also 'had this spine-tingling roar of support, but could only ever be an also-ran'. The track also marks The Leisure Society’s first foray into synths, utilising as it does six different vintage synth lines, layered up by Helen and Christian. Having recorded both The Sleeper and 2011's follow-up Into The Murky Water in home studios, the range of technology both old and new at the band's disposal at Konk proved to be the perfect foil for The Leisure Society's ambitious designs. Alone Aboard The Ark was recorded on a 2“ tape machine and a 1970s mixing desk, and the value of recording live, coupled with the band's minimal approach to arrangement, is borne out across the album. Nick Etwell’s (trumpeter to Mumford & 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'. Ask the band what makes them most proud of Alone Aboard The Ark though, and the answer is likely to be 'a gang mentality'. Say Christian and Nick, 'There’s no question that this is 'the one' in terms of us five working together to create something. As a result of the camaraderie and everyone having their say, we’re all at our absolute peak on this album'. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.