Daylight Versions: the Leaf Library review – melancholy wonder on delightful debut

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The crepuscular songs on the debut album of London quintet the Leaf Library are typically set outdoors on the coast of southern England, and involve gazing in melancholy wonder at the world. Their lyrics are concerned with time’s repetitions, the movement of the seasons, the rhythms of night and day, and there’s circular motion, too, in the way the spare verses are repeated like mantras. “Seas turn white / By October light / swim away from the summer sun,” sings