Posts Tagged ‘A Picture of Good Health’

LIFE – ” Bum Hour “

Posted: March 11, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Led by brothers Mez Sanders-Green (vocals) and Mick Sanders (guitar),  UK four-piece LIFE make snarling, gleefully hyper punk with a pop sensibility and a heap of attitude. Their second album, “A Picture of Good Health”, was released last fall and is recommended to fans of McLusky, Fontaines DC and IDLES (with whom they’ll be on tour in the UK in April). Known for their fiery live shows, Music video by Life performing “Bum Hour” . Life are at the crest of the current wave of UK guitar music alongside other scene champions . they channel bands such as The Fall, Blur and Parquet Courts. Their focus on community and witty, off-centre social commentary underscores everything they do. The band hail from Hull in England’s North East. Energetic frontman Mez jumps and dances around the stage with a death glare like Jarvis Cocker making love to Frank Sidebottom and the Sultans of Ping.

Life released their second album – A Picture Of Good Health – in September 2019 in partnership with PIAS and recorded with Luke Smith (Foals, Everything Everything, Depeche Mode) and mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer (Parquet Courts, Yak, Weezer). It was BBC 6 Music’s Album Of The Day, BBC Radio 1’s Album Of The Weekend and was one of BBC 6Music’s Albums of The Year; all four singles from the album were play-listed at 6Music.

New music, out now. We are so proud to give you “Switching On” our latest single taken from “A Picture of Good Health”. Watch our Wes Anderson influenced video created by ourselves

The new album is more personal, about mental health and inner turmoil. I think all of us had a breakdown at some point while making it” – Mez, Life.

Hull’s post-punk absurdist polemics LIFE made quite an impact with their DIY debut album. 2017’s Popular Music was championed by BBC 6Music’s Steve Lamacq and won firm fans (and friends) in fellow post-punkers Idles. Most unexpectedly, Popular Music even ended up in BBC Radio 1 Albums Of The Year list, where Life’s gnarly, Humberside riffs and scattergun wordplay kept unlikely – but deserved – company with the likes of Jay-Z, Skepta, the xx and Wolf Alice. Two years on, their eagerly awaited, dryly-titled second album, A Picture Of Good Health, ups the ante musically and lyrically.

Album available through Afghan Moon the album ‘A Picture Of Good Health’, released on the 20th of September 2019,

LIFE – ” Hollow Thing “

Posted: June 13, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Following the release of excellent recent single “Moral Fibre”, Hull based outfit LIFE have now announced details of their much anticipated second album “A Picture Of Good Health”. Alongside this announcement the band have also shared a new single taken from the record called Hollow Thing.

Whereas the band’s excellent debut album Popular Music was broadly political, the new album takes a more personal approach with some beguilingly honest and brave lyrics that are bold in both sound and feeling, whilst also retaining the core DNA of their previous material. Hollow Thing has the band homing in on a bigger and more focused sound whilst also channelling the lyrical content inwards.

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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!

‘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 .

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!”

New album out on 20TH SEPTEMBER 2019 via Afghan Moon.