Pop review: The Leisure Society, The Sleeper

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# The Leisure Society

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Household names they may be but cinema's Shane Meadows and Paddy Considine must sometimes wonder what might have been had they continued making music with Nick Hemming, now one-half of the Leisure Society. The Sleeper, their debut album, is wonderful, its peculiarly English strain of Americana shot through with longing and a nagging sense of dread.

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