Leonidas & Hobbes - Pockets Of Light (2024)

Following recent releases from George Demure (Ear Candy Dandy album), Galun (Glagol album) and Kiji Suedo (Hosek EP and Riot album), Hobbes Music welcomes the return of Leonidas & Hobbes, with their debut album, Pockets Of Light.

“UFOs, metaphysics, climate change, technology/AI and the possibility of human extinction - all subjects that have preoccupied our minds and conversations for a long time,” they explain. “Becoming parents and then finding ourselves both dealing with respective break-ups during the pandemic brought all these topics to the forefront and compelled us to address them, albeit subtly and implicitly, in our music.”

As well as being their first long player, this will be their fifth release, following 2021’s widely acclaimed Aranath EP and 2017’s Rags Of Time EP (voted Record Of The Year by DJs on Bill Brewster’s DJ History podcast). Pockets Of Light is also very much the duo’s Lockdown Album (everyone’s got one) and reveals Leonidas & Hobbes in a reflective mood.

While they have previously delved into house, disco, techno/electronic, ambient and soundtrack styles, making a name for themselves on the international ‘Balearic’ scene, the recordings here are even more stylistically expansive. Uptempo dance tracks rub up against more introspective, downtempo numbers and fully beatless, ambient tracks plus one dub-wise affair. Drawing the whole package together, a narrative flow emerges more explicitly through a series of spoken word samples - a hallmark of many L&H recordings - conveying a series of messages…