Leisure Noise

Leisure Noise
Studio album by Gay Dad
Released	7 June 1999
Genre	Post-Britpop, Neo-psychedelia, Space rock
Length	46:50
Label	London, Sire
Producer	Chris Hughes Mark Frith (co-producer) Tony Visconti on "To Earth With Love"
Gay Dad chronology
Leisure Noise (1999) Transmission (2001)
Singles from Leisure Noise
"To Earth with Love" Released: 18 January 1999 "Joy!" Released: 24 May 1999 "Oh Jim" Released: 2 August 1999

Leisure Noise is the first album by London band Gay Dad, released via London Records and Sire Records on 7 June 1999. The album is a blending of glam rock, neo-psychedelia, krautrock and gospel into indie pop. Lyrically it is often about and constructed of rock history. The track-listing was designed to mimic the traditional two-sided vinyl.

In 2014, NME included the album in its list of "30 Glorious Britpop Albums That Deserve a Reissue Pronto," saying "A music journalist turned rock star? It’ll never catch on… Hmmm, back in a sec… Anyway, Face scribe Cliff Jones might've cut a faintly ridiculous figure but he had the looks and – in "Joy!" and "To Earth with Love" – songs that could light up any Cool Britannic indie dancefloor. Just imagine those brash cuts freshly remastered."^[1]

Critical response[]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[3]
NME	(8/10)[4]
Pitchfork	(0.9/10)[5]
Q	[6]
Robert Christgau	[7]
Rolling Stone	[8]
Wall of Sound	85/100[9]

Accolades

Track listing[]

All tracks composed by Cliff Jones, James Riseboro, Nicholas Crowe and Nigel Hoyle; except where indicated

1. "Dimstar" – 5:14
2. "Joy!" – 5:00
3. "Oh Jim" – 2:46
4. "My Son Mystic" – 3:25
5. "Black Ghost" (Jones, Riseboro, Crowe, Hoyle, Jim Irvin) – 7:35
6. "To Earth with Love" – 5:04
7. "Dateline" – 4:43
8. "Pathfinder" – 3:56
9. "Different Kind of Blue" (Jones, Riseboro, Crowe, Hoyle, Irvin) – 4:51
10. "Jesus Christ" (Jones, Riseboro, Crowe, Hoyle, Irvin) – 4:16

Personnel[]

Gay Dad

• Cliff Jones
• James Riseboro
• Nicholas Crowe
• Nigel Hoyle

with:

• Carol Kenyon - additional vocals on "Joy!" and "Jesus Christ"
• Guy Barker - horns on "Dateline"
• Lynton Naiff - horn arrangement on "Dateline"

Technical

• Gary Langan - recording, mixing
• Howard Wakefield, Paul Hetherington, Peter Saville

References[]