Leisure - Welcome to the mood (Limited Orange Coloured Vinyl)

🎧 LISTENING EXPERIENCE: Press play on this limited orange vinyl and immerse yourself in a soulful, sunset-soaked journey perfect for golden hour contemplation or late-night introspection. LEISURE's fifth studio album delivers an audiophile-worthy sonic landscape where warm analog tones meet crystalline production—expect lush strings, subtle brass flourishes, and intimate vocals that reward attentive listening through quality speakers or headphones. This is music for those moments when you want to feel deeply: let the slow-burning grooves wash over you as the album explores love, loss, and human connection with a laid-back sophistication that's both nostalgic and refreshingly contemporary. The organic, live-recording approach captures the band's evolution beautifully, with each track anchored in emotional authenticity while reaching for something transcendent.

For their fifth studio album, Welcome to the Mood, Auckland's genre-defying sextet LEISURE refines their soulful, slow-burning ethos into a radiant new chapter -- one rooted in togetherness, creative freedom, and the lived experience of a band evolving with authentic purpose. They also embraced a more organic, live-recording approach on Welcome to the Mood. The group explains, "Off the back of touring the last album, we had played more shows than ever and wanted to bring more of the live element into the process, so we didn't use drum breaks and loops as much as previous records and tracked live." They continued expanding their sound by bringing in specialist musicians - string sections, brass, pianos, and backing vocalists - pushing the sonic possibilities beyond their individual skill sets. Yet at its core, the album remains deeply personal. Written in remote hideaways, the songs carry the tranquillity of escape while capturing a newfound confidence in emotional vulnerability. Thematically, Welcome to the Mood is a rich sonic auditory tapestry woven with threads of authenticity, humanity, and creative celebration. Lyrically, the album explores universal experiences - love, loss, connection, hope, and purpose - drawn from the everyday yet rendered in LEISURE's distinct palette of lush tones and laid-back groove. Tracks are anchored in realness but elevated by a sonic landscape that feels simultaneously nostalgic and futuristic, mirroring the ethos of Frank Lloyd Wright, whose Taliesin West provided literal and symbolic inspiration during the album's visual journey. "A striking sense of cohesion and style." - The Line of Best Fit "blissed-out, height-of-summer melancholia groove" - Vanyaland "Genre-hopping supergroup" - Rolling Stone ...