North East Coastal Town

Self Portrait

Poison

Shipping Forecast

Incomplete

Duck Egg Blue

All You Are

Almost Home

Friends Without Names

The Drug

Big Moon Lake

Our Love Is Growing

Grown Up

Hull Sky

Jingle Bells (LIFEmas)

Friends Without Names (Radio Edit)

Our Love Is Growing (Single Mix)

Popular Music 
All music written and performed by LIFE, lyrics by Mez and Mick Recorded and produced by Ian Dowling
Artwork by Dan Wilson
(C) & (P) LIFE 2016

Popular Music

Rare Boots
All music written and performed by LIFE, lyrics by Mez and Mick

Produced and recorded by Ian Dowling at Fish Factory, London. Rare Boots was mixed at Lime Green Monkeys w/ mix assistant George Chung.

(C) & (P) LIFE 2016

RARE BOOTS

'You have the right to bear arms if you have the right coloured arms'

Euromillions - all music written and performed by LIFE, lyrics by Mez and Mick recorded and produced by Ian Dowling at the Fish Factory - LIFE (C)(P)

Euromillions

Single - In Your Hands - out now 
Debut Album - Popular Music - out 26th May 2017 

All music written and performed by LIFE - Lyrics by Mez & Mick 
LIFE (C)(P) 2017
Produced and mixed by Ian Dowling at Fish Factory, LDN

In Your Hands

Ba Ba Ba - taken from debut album Popular Music out May 26th 2017

All lyrics written by Mez & Mick - all music by LIFE

(C)(P) LIFE 2017

Ba Ba Ba

Grown Up
All music written and produced by LIFE 
(C)(P) LIFE
New single 'Grown Up' is the bands first offering of new music since their debut album Popular Music. 'Grown Up' will be released in June 2018

B-sides are often a throw away, pigeons dressed as seagulls that coo over our tiny heads. Chiedu Oraka Official is, like us, an underdog uniting communities in Hull so it was a no brainer to get him and the Lockdown crew to remix Grown Up!

LIFE vs Chiedu Oraka - Grown Up

Moral Fibre  - LIFE

NEW ALBUM OUT 20TH SEPTEMBER 2019 VIA AFGHAN MOON / [PIAS]
Pre-order here: https://smarturl.it/LIFE-APOGH

Hollow Thing is about tackling isolation and fixing yourself. It’s about letting go of something in your life, something that’s passed.

‘’Wait for the past to fade, wait for that hollow thing…’’

Hollow Thing is about moving on and overcoming hurt, taking the hits but getting through it.

‘’Wade through a sea of beige, choke on great clods of dirt…’

Hollow Thing is embracing your worth.

‘’I look much better than you, I love much deeper too.’’

Hollow Thing is littered with lyrics that reference something ending and then something beginning again. It’s a twisted pick me up!

‘’Sweep up your debris from your sexless throne.’’

The past is the past and…

‘’Dogs bark in doorways in a godless home.’’

‘Hollow Thing' is the second single to be taken from LIFE’s new album. Produced by Luke Smith (Foals) and mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer (Parquet Courts), the band home in on a bigger and more focused sound whilst also channelling the lyrical content inwards. Whereas the band’s debut album ‘Popular Music’ was broadly political, the new album takes a more personal approach with beguilingly honest and brave lyrics that are bold in both sound and feeling, whilst also retaining the core DNA of their previous material.

Going on to speak about the album Mez says “A Picture of Good Health is not a collage of work but rather a snapshot of time; our time and the time of those around us. It’s political, but in a personal way. It’s a body of work that explores and examines the band's inner-selves through a precise period; a period that has brought pain, loneliness, blood, guts, single parenthood, depression and the need for survival and love. It is the sense and need for belonging that is the resounding end note!”

LIFE - Hollow Thing

Release date 29 August

'A Picture Of Good Health' - will be released 20th September on own Afghan Moon label in partnership with PIAS.

 Pre-order here: smarturl.it/LIFE-APOGH

Moral Fibre and Hollow Thing the first two singles taken from the new album are out now! (Fri 29 March) with a further single scheduled from album #2 - produced by Luke Smith (Foals, Everything Everything, Depeche Mode) and mixed by Claudius Mettendorfer (Parquet Courts, Yak, Weezer). A follow-up to LIFE's successful, self-released debut ‘Popular Music’ which was included in Radio 1's best albums of 2017.

Bum Hour

New remix of LIFE's current single 'Switching On'. Release date 26 May.

Video for original single here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMMzzgQWY6s

Switching On - IDLES Remix

LIFE’s acclaimed new album North East Coastal Town is out now: https://theliquidlabel.ffm.to/life_northeastcoastaltown

LIFE are a band anchored by their community. The album is an ode to kinship and relationship with its musical and lyrical spine picking out themes of love, desire, beauty, horror, chaos, pride and most importantly the sense of belonging.

It’s a reflective body of work dedicated to people and place and those that have always been there and made the band feel like they belong.

North East Coastal Town features a plethora of play-listed singles including  Friends Without Names & The Drug.

LIFE

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