LIFE: "There's a lost generation of people who have fallen through the cracks"

With his band enjoying critical acclaim for their debut record, and a prestigious support slot with one of the hottest bands around, IDLES, lately everything may have been looking good on the outside for LIFE frontman Mez Green. But on the inside, things have been far less healthy.

"The six months leading up to recording this record, there was a certain part of my life where it all just went to shit," he explains to Dork over the phone, from back home in Hull.

With songs that deal with feelings of isolation after moving out of a family home into a small apartment, single fatherhood and general mental health, much of his personal life has been put on display for the band's second album, 'A Picture Of Good Health'.

After their scintillating debut 'Popular Music' dealt with the big subjects like Brexit and Trump, this follow-up has turned the focus definitively inwards, zooming in on the tiny details and moments that define the times we find ourselves in.

As with so many bands, LIFE's debut was pieced together over an extended period, forming a thrilling but disjointed introduction. This time around, however, things are very different.

Ignoring any easy temptation to follow up with more of the same, the music has expanded just as the lyrical focus has narrowed. "We lived in London for four weeks as a gang, a family really. We were working with more creative people, so we just pushed ourselves and tried to be a bit more expansive and more experimental. I guess the subject matters are quite minute and internal, so we wanted to make the music a bit broader and bigger in scale to balance it out."