Leisure_Noise

<i>Leisure Noise</i>

Leisure Noise

1999 studio album by Gay Dad

Leisure Noise is the first album by London band Gay Dad, released via London Records and Sire Records on 7 June 1999. The album is a blending of glam rock, neo-psychedelia, krautrock and gospel into indie pop. Lyrically it is often about and constructed of rock history. The track-listing was designed to mimic the traditional two-sided vinyl.

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Chris Hughes produced the album, except for "To Earth with Love", which was produced by Tony Visconti and Mark Frith. Gary Langan handled recording and mixing; Howie Weinberg mastered the album at Masterdisc in New York City.[1]

In 2014, NME included the album in its list of "30 Glorious Britpop Albums That Deserve a Reissue Pronto," saying "A music journalist turned rock star? It’ll never catch on… Hmmm, back in a sec… Anyway, Face scribe Cliff Jones might've cut a faintly ridiculous figure but he had the looks and – in "Joy!" and "To Earth with Love" – songs that could light up any Cool Britannic indie dancefloor. Just imagine those brash cuts freshly remastered."[2]

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Track listing

All tracks written by Nicholas Crowe, Cliff Jones, Nigel Hoyle and James Riseboro, except where noted.[1]

  1. "Dimstar" – 5:14
  2. "Joy!" – 5:00
  3. "Oh Jim" – 2:46
  4. "My Son Mystic" – 3:25
  5. "Black Ghost" (Crowe, Jones, Hoyle, Jim Irvin, Riseboro) – 7:35
  6. "To Earth with Love" – 5:04
  7. "Dateline" – 4:43
  8. "Pathfinder" – 3:56
  9. "Different Kind of Blue" (Crowe, Jones, Hoyle, Irvin, Riseboro) – 4:51
  10. "Jesus Christ" (Crowe, Jones, Hoyle, Irvin, Riseboro) – 4:16

Personnel

Personnel per booklet.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Leisure Noise (booklet). Gay Dad. London Recordings. 1999. 556 103-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. [2]
    "30 Glorious Britpop Albums That Deserve a Reissue Pronto". NME. 21 July 2014.
  3. [3]
    Allmusic review
  4. [4]
    Entertainment Weekly review
  5. [5]
    NME review
  6. [6]
    Pitchfork review
  7. [7]
    Cranna, Ian. "Review: Gay Dad - Leisure Noise". Q (July 1999). EMAP Metro Ltd: 108.
  8. [8]
    Robert Christgau review
  9. [9]
    Rolling Stone review
  10. [10]
    Hall, Russell. "Review: Leisure Noise". Wall of Sound. Archived from the original on 15 April 2001. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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