Credit: Matt Mollson
Words: Ellie Ward
After recent single ‘Moral Fibre’, Hull outfit LIFE return with both the announcement of their highly second album, and another track from it.
Produced by Luke Smith (Foals) and mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer (Parquet Courts), ‘A Picture Of Good Health’ is due to be released on September 20 via Afghan Moon/[PIAS].
The band have now shared a new single from the record called ‘Hollow Thing’.
"'Hollow Thing' is about tackling isolation and fixing yourself. It’s about letting go of something in your life, something that’s passed," says frontman Mez Green. "'Hollow Thing' is littered with lyrics that reference something ending and then something beginning again. It’s a twisted pick me up!"
Whereas the band’s debut album ‘Popular Music’ was broadly political, the new album takes a more personal approach. “'A Picture of Good Health' is not a collage of work but rather a snapshot of time,” he adds, "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!”
‘A Picture Of Good Health’ track list:
1. Good Health
2. Moral Fibre
3. Bum Hour
4. Hollow Thing
5. Excites Me
6. Never Love Again
7. Half Pint Fatherhood
8. Grown Up
9. Niceties
10. Thoughts
11. It's A Con
12. Don't Give Up Yet
13. New Rose in Love
Live dates
JUNE
28 Glastonbury Festival
JULY
04 Polacy na Rock For People, Hradec Králové
11 2000trees Festival
13 Pohoda Festival, Slo
26 Les Nuits Secrètes, Bel
AUGUST
02 Humber Street Sesh, Hull
17 Pukkelpop, Bel
SEPTEMBER
01 Wilkestock Festival, Stevenage
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