Leonidas & Hobbes - Pockets Of Light (12")

Artist:: Leonidas & Hobbes
Title:: Pockets Of Light
Label:: Hobbes Music
Catalog#:: HM024EP
Format:: 1 x Vinyl 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Mini-Album, EP
Country:: UK
Released:: 15 Mar 2024

Media Condition:: Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition:: Mint (M)

Debut LP from Hobbes head honcho & fellow label lynchpin Leonidas.

£14.95

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SKU

DISC30104927N1

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Description

Currently celebrating ten years of releasing music on vinyl & cassette and following hype for recent releases from Moscow (via Tallinn)'s Galun (Glagol album) and Osaka's Kiji Suedo (Hosek EP & Riot album), plus the new George Demure album, Ear Candy Dandy, Edinburgh's Hobbes Music label welcomes the return of Leonidas & Hobbes, with their debut album, Pockets Of Light.

As well as being their first long player, this will be their fifth release, following 2021's widely acclaimed Aranath EP and 2017's Rags Of Time EP (voted Record Of The Year by DJs on Bill Brewster's DJ History podcast). Pockets Of Light is also very much the duo's Lockdown Album (everyone's got one) and reveals Leonidas & Hobbes in a reflective mood - two old school electronic music aficionados on an ambient techno/electro/house tip....

"UFOs, metaphysics, climate change, technology/AI and the possibility of human extinction - all subjects that have preoccupied our minds and conversations for a long time," they explain. "Becoming parents and then finding ourselves both dealing with respective break-ups during the pandemic brought all these topics to the forefront and compelled us to address them, albeit subtly and implicitly, in our music."

While they have previously delved into house, disco, techno/electronic, ambient and soundtrack styles, making a name for themselves on the international 'Balearic' scene, the recordings here are even more stylistically expansive. Uptempo dance tracks rub up against more introspective, downtempo numbers, fully beatless, ambient tracks and dub. Drawing the whole package together, a narrative flow emerges more explicitly through a series of spoken word samples - a hallmark of many L&H recordings - conveying a series of messages…

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