LIFE share new single ‘Big Moon Lake’ + announce ‘North East Coastal Town’ LP

LIFE have announced details of their highly anticipated third album ‘North East Coastal Town’. The band have also shared the next single to be lifted from it, Big Moon Lake. The track is a hook-heavy, observational banger full of LIFE’s trademark swagger. Check out the video clip for Big Moon Lake via YouTube below.

LIFE are a band anchored by the city of Hull – it’s geography, history and community has always inspired their creativity and with this new record they pay homage to their beloved city and it’s folk.
When discussing the concept of ’North East Coastal Town’, vocalist Mez Green said:

“Hull and the surrounding area runs through our DNA and has shaped us, weathered us, empowered us, embraced us and made us feel accepted.

North East Coastal Town is our love letter to the city. 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 us feel like we belong.

Upon writing and recording this album it was important to us that this sense of belonging was also reflected in the album’s craft and therefore we used locally based studios, equipment, gear, and the community around us to establish what it means to belong in a North East Coastal Town.”

LIFE’s highly charged new single, “Big Moon Lake”, is out now and follows-up recent single, and first offering from the new album, Friends Without Names which was released in November 2022 and amassed popular support across BBC 6 Music resulting in an A-List addition.

“Big Moon Lake” is accompanied by a video that is set around the band’s studio on the river Humber. Directed by friend Luke Hallett the video pays homage to 1980’s Top of The Pop’s and in particular references the output of fellow cult Hull band The Red Guitars.

“We wanted Big Moon Lake to acknowledge the lyrical social commentary that was littered throughout our first two records whilst expanding the experimental and personal sound that you will hear throughout the new record.

The track is playful and teases everyday themes of missing out, numbness, drinking, smoking and eating badly and generally wanting more for yourself in life. Its resolve being that in hindsight everything is in front of you, it’s on your doorstep and in this case that’s the wondrous county of Yorkshire.”

‘North East Coastal Town’ track listing

1. Friends Without Names
2. Big Moon Lake
3. Incomplete
4. Almost Home
5. Duck Egg Blue
6. Shipping Forecast
7. Poison
8. Self Portrait
9. The Drug
10. Our Love Is Growing
11. All You Are

‘North East Coastal Town’ will be released on June 10th, 2022 via the Liquid Label – Pre-order

Along with the album announcement and single, LIFE also announced EU/UK tour dates.

Live dates

4^th Mar – The Welly, Hull
5^th Mar – Yes, Manchester
22^nd Apr – Le 22, Bourges, France
13^th May – Young Thugs Festival, York

Album release in-stores:
10^th June – 1pm The Vinyl Tap, Huddersfield (1pm) / Record Junkee, Sheffield (7pm)
12^th June – Rough Trade Bristol
13^th June – Rough Trade East, London
14^th June – Pie & Vinyl, Southsea (1pm) / Resident, Brighton (6pm)
15^th June – Parade Vibes, Watford (1pm) / Rough Trade Nottingham (6pm)
16^th June – The Vinyl Whistle, Headingley (1pm) / Jumbo, Leeds (3.30pm) / Crash, Leeds (6pm)

Festivals – more to be announced:
3^rd June – Vestrock Festival, Netherlands
11^th June – Long Division Festival, Wakefield
13^th July – Colours of Ostrava, Czech Republic
8^th Sep – Big Festival, Andalucia
9^th Sep – La Baskonia Festival, Malaga

UK Tour:
3^rd Oct – The Cluny, Newcastle
4^th Oct – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
5^th Oct – Mash House, Edinburgh
7^th Oct – Bootleg Social, Blackpool
8^th Oct – Bodega, Nottingham
10^th Oct – The Fleece, Bristol
11^th Oct – Patterns, Brighton
12^th Oct – Scala, London
14^th Oct – Joiners, Southampton

EU Tour:
27^th Sept – Confort Modern, Poitiers
28^th Sept – Rock School Barbey, Bordeaux
29^th Sept – Astrolabe, Orleans
30^th Sept – Point Ephemere, Paris
17^th Oct – Blueshell, Cologne
18^th Oct – Molotow Club, Hamburg
20^th Oct – Café V Lese, Prague
22^nd Oct – Arci Bellezza, Milan
23^rd Oct – Freakout, Bologna
25^th Oct – Hole 44, Berlin
26^th Oct – Merelyn, Nigmegen
27^th Oct – Rotown, Rotterdam
28^th Oct – ACU, Utrecht
29^th Oct – London Calling Festival, Amsterdam

Tickets for all shows: https://www.lifeband.co.uk/