“Life of Leisure has the bittersweet taste of the end of summer all wrapped up in a seventeen-minute package, quite a good set of songs for those days when you have to look back and think hard to remember everything – every sleepless night dancing, every star in the sky, the sound of waves on every vacant beach. Like night-swimming, half your face submerged, and the moon across the water. Like walking home on sandy streets lined with resorts, gently holding someone’s hand, feeling in your chest the distant pulsing bass from basements and passing cars. It doesn’t sound like dance music or party music or techno music – it is a sensuous electronic whirlwind…” – Pretty Much Amazing

“…the summer has wound down, the sun has gone and it has left nothing more than a nostalgic memory of adolescent youth – something captured by its unerring indulgence in 80s synth-pop.” – Dummy Mag

“The chief strength of the EP is the giant walls of beautiful noise that Washed Out can create. Through the use of warm and enveloping synths, the aforementioned whooshing vocals and slightly crackling textures, the “Life of leisure” EP creates an inviting and roomy headspace for you to drift away in. Coincidentally, considering the album’s late September release date, it makes a great backdrop for the waning summer.” – The Pointer