North East Coastal Town

Shipping Forecast

Popular Music

Earthworm

Incomplete

Duck Egg Blue

All You Are

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

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

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 are an alternative band from Hull. The creative four-piece are proudly independent with a strong DIY ethic built around community. LIFE have successfully released three albums on their own label and are currently writing their next body of work.

LIFE’s albums include 2017’s Popular Music (BBC Radio 1’s albums of the year), 2019’s A Picture of Good Health (BBC Radio 6’s albums of the year & AIM Award nominated best second album) and 2022’s critically acclaimed North East Coastal Town which long-time supporter of the band Steve Lamacq described as the best thing the band had released a; “Snow-globe of emotions.’’

Friends Without Names the lead single from North East Coastal Town was A-listed at BBC6 Music. The band have cemented great favour at the station with numerous playlist additions including their singles Big Moon Lake, The Drug, Excites Me, Bum Hour, Popular Music & more.

Popular tracks by LIFE