The Leisure Society

Nick Hemming's folk-inflected pop act the Leisure Society kicked into life in 2005 after he moved into the same South London apartment as fellow Burton-Upon-Trent, England-born musician Christian Hardy. A guitarist since the age of 17, Hemming had already created scores for his friend Shane Meadows' acclaimed 1999 film A Room for Romeo Brass, as well as 2002's gripping and violent Dead Man's Shoes. On the soundtrack to the latter film -- under the Leisure Society moniker -- Hemming's music sat alongside that of a veritable roll call of achingly cool alt-folk acts such as Smog,...