A Picture of Good Health
CD + VINYL AVAILABLE HERE - www.lifeband.co.uk/consume “this record is indispensable” – DIY (4.5/5) “tightly wound guitars and lyrical zingers combine for maximum '80s Peel session effect” – MOJO (4/5) "it's the album the Hull punks deserve" – Upset (4/5) "a thunderous reminder of why guitar music is mankind's greatest creation" – Dork (4/5) “One of the only saving graces of the omnishambles of a time we live in is the emergence of bands that have something to be genuinely angry about. Few bands better epitomise that than LIFE” – NARC (4.5/5) 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.
Hull four-piece return with an explosive second effort that's just as much an exercise in catharsis as it is personal reflection
They’re hitting their stride just as the Brexit void looms. Accordingly, this record is indispensable.
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Hull four-piece LIFE have served up a sophomore album filled with personable vignettes about (aptly) life, and one that proves their highly acclaimed 2017
For the band LIFE from Hull, England, A Picture of Good Health isn't just a catchy, sardonic title for their second album.