{"id":2298,"date":"2009-05-01T06:23:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T11:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2009-05-01T06:23:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T11:23:52","slug":"more-on-the-leisure-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2298","title":{"rendered":"More on The Leisure Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

And people looking for information on The Leisure Society, a band I discovered by random chance a month ago<\/a>, who has been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for their song “The Last of the Melting Snow,”<\/a> continue to point their web browsers my way.<\/p>\n

Today, people are wanting the lyrics to “The Sleeper.” Which is an interesting song. I find the lyric poetic, in a nihilistic sort of way. Seriously, the first verse is just… bleak.<\/p>\n

This is what my ears make out:<\/p>\n

Someday we all shall cease to exist
\nSomeday our towers will fall
\nRoots will reclaim the bricks that we lay
\nWorms will reclaim the soil<\/p>\n

You get alone, you get stoned
\nSometimes you need someone
\nYou get alone, you get cold
\nSometimes you need someone<\/p>\n

Salt in the ocean raises the words
\nPrised from a foreign tongue
\nWe are but mayflies caught on the breeze
\nLed by a fading sun<\/p>\n

You get alone, you get stoned
\nSometimes you need someone
\nYou get alone, you get cold
\nSometimes you need someone<\/p>\n

You need someone<\/p>\n

You get alone, you get stoned
\nSometimes you need someone
\nYou get alone, you get cold
\nSometimes you need someone<\/p>\n

You need someone<\/p>\n

Someday we all shall cease to exist
\nSomeday our towers will fall
\nRoots will reclaim the bricks that we lay
\nWorms will reclaim the soil<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Speaking of The Leisure Society, I found an interesting article on the Times Online<\/i> website about lead singer Nick Hemming’s reaction to the Ivor Novello award nomination<\/a>. It goes a little bit into the history of the band, where “The Last of the Melting Snow” came from, and how the band is actually unsigned.<\/p>\n

As I said last week, as much as I love Elbow (and I do — I’m an Elbow evangelist, I swear), and as much as I love “One Day Like This,” I really do<\/i> think the better song is “The Last of the Melting Snow.” Naturally, then, it’s “Melting Snow” that I’m rooting for in the Ivor Novello Awards later this month. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Frankly, I think The Sleeper<\/i>, their album, is brilliant. I love listening to it, and it’s been in pretty heavy rotation for me the past month. At times their music reminds me of Nick Drake, but there’s more instrumentation. I love the plucked ukelele that opens “A Matter of Time” for instance.<\/p>\n

The album is available on iTunes. At the least, give “Melting Snow” or “A Matter of Time” a try. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And people looking for information on The Leisure Society, a band I discovered by random chance a month ago, who has been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for their song “The Last of the Melting Snow,” continue to point their web browsers my way. Today, people are wanting the lyrics to “The Sleeper.” WhichContinue reading “More on The Leisure Society”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[681],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-leisure-society","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}