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Leisure Seizure

Tom Vek

Leisure Seizure

Six years after his much-discussed debut, the London alt.pop / rock singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist returns

ADM rating[?]

6.5

Label
Island
UK Release date
06/06/2011
US Release date
14/06/2011
  1. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Where Vek truly excels is creating simple, catchy tracks with lyrics and beats that become ingrained in your memory
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  2. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    Even after half a decade out of the limelight, there's no one making music quite like this guy
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  3. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Unique and subtly disquieting. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Inimitable not because of any great innovation or genius, but for the way it seemingly exists in its own perfectly contained universe
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  5. 8.0 |   NME

    He is a better composer than Weepy Jamie Woon; a more substantial lyricist than Inconsolable James Blake; and a more engaging producer than Yammering Jamie xx
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  6. 8.0 |   DIY

    The return of Tom Vek seems like an excuse for a national holiday
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  7. 8.0 |   State

    A few idle listens will leave Leisure Seizure bouncing about your brain for weeks to come
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  8. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    A pop scene with an active Tom Vek in it firing his myriad of ideas at the canvas is an infinitely more interesting and fun place to be than one where everyone is mourning his absence
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  9. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    By and large, fans of We Have Sound will find a lot to love about Leisure Seizure, as Vek mostly remains true to the style he patented in 2005
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  10. 7.0 |   BBC

    There's more than enough here to satisfy aficionados of offbeat, fiercely inventive pop music
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  11. 6.2 |   Pitchfork

    There's a spark missing on these numbers
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  12. 6.0 |   No Ripcord

    One can detect that he’s in the business of writing pop hits, not a pop album
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  13. 6.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Just as with his first album, the word ‘filler’ becomes unfortunately applicable
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  14. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Nobody else writes songs like him. Alas, the twentysomething has a voice only a mother could truly love
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  15. 6.0 |   Spin

    Slabs of jittery synths underpin his urgent yelps, which start to grate over 12 tracks
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  16. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    This isn’t quite worthy of the conjecture preceding it
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  17. 4.0 |   Q

    Tom Veck's charm has lost its spark. Print edition only

  18. 4.0 |   Mojo

    Seems oddly outmoded, its knowing retro-futurism ironically out of time. Print edition only

  19. 4.0 |   Under The Radar

    Anticlimactic and sometimes exasperating
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