Straight out of the former European Capital Of Culture and into the upper echelons of modern-day punk,
LIFE’s second LP sees the Hull quartet take their game to the next level and smash their own previous high score.
A Picture Of Good Health takes 2017’s Popular Music and ramps it up into an unyielding beast of aggravation and battle cries. This 21st-century anarchy with stylish outfits is a powerful manifesto crammed with passion, rage and sheer excitement for stepping away from the norm.
With the longest track lasting just over three and a half minutes, this feisty rabble have mastered the art of swift, aural justice with Mez Sanders standing atop a podium where his message is screamed to the masses. Mez’s vocal style is reminiscent a young Mark E Smith and that cheeky grin adorning his face can be heard in between his carefully crafted anarchistic tirades.
These short, sharp bursts of angst-fuelled rants against the mainstream shine a spotlight on the frustrations of an ever-growing mass of disenfranchised voices who aren’t willing to sit and wait patiently for their turn any more. This is a call to arms to rise up and fight for your beliefs from a band so assured in themselves that they’d gladly standoff with even the most obnoxiously proud peacock.
Recent single ‘
Moral Fibre’ is an absolute banger, and probably the angriest list that’s been committed to record, while there are other slabs of genius waiting further down the album in ‘
Niceties’ and the raw, furious brilliance of ‘Don’t Give Up Yet’.
