LIFE return with the announcement of their new album ABSTRACT / NATURAL, will drop on June 19th via Launchpad+/EMI North. Ahead of the LP’s arrival, the UK band have shared lead single “The Dollywaggon.”

“The Dollywaggon” was written while Mez Sanders-Green was walking the 193 mile UK coast-to-coast route, the song traces a physical and emotional journey from the West Coast, over the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, across the moors and finally home to the East Coast.

“”The Dollywaggon’s universal theme is about letting go and moving on – new adventures and beginnings,” Mez explains. I wrote the lyrics whilst doing a long distance walk, turning what I saw into characters and scenes. I like to think it sounds like a pulpy Northern-based western – cryptic placards, farmers hanging dead moles on chicken wire, phallic mountains, pikes and ridges, Mother Earth always winning. The middle-8 feels like a salute to the new. In many ways, the track became the blueprint for the whole record.”

ABSTRACT / NATURAL was Produced by Stewart Baxter and Oliver Varga, mixed by James Kenosha and mastered by Stephen Kerrison, ABSTRACT / NATURAL was recorded at LIFE’s own studio in Hull (The Moon Factory); a space the band built themselves on the banks of the river and now run as a creative hub for emerging Northern artists

Sanders-Green began presenting fragments to the band as “wonky lullabies”, turning hills, ridges and landmarks into characters: Hen Comb, Pavey Arc, Sergeant Man, The Grey Friar and The Dollywaggon. From there, bandmates Stewart Baxter, Lydia Palmeira and Mick Sanders shaped the music around these narratives, instinctively weaving them into vivid arrangements that collectively present a fully-realised universe.

LIFE
ABSTRACT / NATURAL
EMI North Records/Launchpad+
Track Listing

1. Wild Grasses
2. The Dollywaggon
3. Turning In
4. Thistles Kiss
5. Mermaid Feet
6. My Yan
7. Drinking Games
8. Sun In Nancy
9. Buried Giant
10. Morning Fog

Pre-order ABSTRACT / NATURAL by LIFE HERE