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Premium Leisure

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Premium Leisure is the unfettered outlet of producer and guitarist Chris Barker. It is a home for his stash of guitar licks and honest songwriting, which began as a means for Chris to make music with his friends. In recent years, the project has evolved into a space for Chris’s clunky tone sculpting and studio explorations, while retaining its communal identity, always circling back to the fundamentals: close-knit musicians making sounds together in a room. Each Premium Leisure chapter is shaped by authenticity, with an onstage presence that can spill into something beautifully unhinged.

After a series of EP releases and the debut album Bug Blood, Premium Leisure’s upcoming EP Pea will arrive later this year. Recorded and self-produced in Oxford, the record is quietly radical in its celebration of domesticity, family life and love. The songs balance these intimate themes in bittersweet fashion with a deep concern for the malign influences of the external world — from intergenerational inheritance and toxic masculinity to corporate greed and environmental strains.

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