LIFE: "I wanna make some bad decisions, y'know?"

Mick Sanders takes a break from his fifth twelve-hour work shift in a row ("my brain feels like a used condom") to tell us about LIFE's debut album, 'Popular Music'.

So, what can you tell us about your album - how would you describe its vibe?

The album is the end product of years of working, writing, gigging and fighting to tread water in a marginalised city. It's the sound of anxiety about the future and anger at the present.

How long have you been working on your debut for?

For what feels like a lifetime, ha. In some ways, I'd say it's something we've been working on for as long as we've been playing music.

Where do you draw your ideas from?

Lyrically, myself and brother Mez take structural influence from modern and post-modern poetry. Wordplay, blank fiction, beat visions. Thematically we can't help but reflect what is happening politically and socially, it has become unavoidable in the past year or so to not comment on the times. The world is batshit crazy, and it feels like we are walking through the hyper-realism of an Escher-esque dreamscape.

Are there any topics you haven’t yet covered that you’d like to on a future release?

I'd like to do a science-fiction concept epic about unknown creatures and sexual deviance. Or maybe a reggae album about dragon riding wizards that solve crimes. Other than that I guess we'll just continue to absorb the pus that oozes in society and comment on what happens next...