Planam / Italy / RE 2016
A long-standing cult treasure, Leisure & The Elderly by Armpit is a warped collage of tape loops, feedback, and absurdist humor—an uncompromising slice of outsider art.
Recorded in Dunedin during the mid-1990s, the album is a dense patchwork of noise and found sound, stitched together with a surreal, sharp-edged wit. Armpit embraces a defiantly lo-fi aesthetic, turning the limitations and mishaps of home recording into part of the music’s character.
The results are wildly unpredictable: passages of abrasive chaos suddenly give way to strange moments of beauty, as though discovered by accident. Armpit treats the studio like a sandbox, stacking and twisting sounds into structures that seem illogical on the surface but cohere perfectly within the album’s eccentric logic.
Leisure & The Elderly has earned its cult reputation precisely because it celebrates freedom over form, accident over polish, and invention over tradition. For listeners drawn to outsider art and experimental sound, this LP remains essential.