Tom Vek: Leisure Seizure – review

(Island)Electro whiz-kid Tom Vek all but disappeared after his hotly tipped but minor-selling 2005 debut; Facebook groups were set up to find him. It transpires that Vek was up to nothing more mysterious than trying to find a studio in which he felt comfortable, but his second album suggests he has also visited the slough of despond. There's an existential gloominess we'd expect from Radiohead or Pink Floyd. Comeback single A Chore is a spectacularly wounded break-up song; songs such as We Do No...

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