Celebrated Hull alternative four-piece LIFE have shared ‘My Yan’, the final single to be taken from their forthcoming new album 'ABSTRACT / NATURAL' ahead of its release on June 19th via EMI North and Launchpad+.
Recalling some of the great euphoric indie-rock of the early 2000s, 'My Yan' simultaneously finds LIFE at their most dynamic and carefree. Driven by a keen sense of purpose from the outset via Lydia Palmeira and Stewart Baxter’s motoring rhythm section, and neatly embellished by Mick Sanders’ glinting guitar harmonics, the track beautifully unfolds into a breezy meditation on love and freedom. From there, a dreamlike middle section knits together shimmering guitar and bass lines beneath lush waves of delay before frontman Mez Sanders-Green’s vocals draw everything back in, rising with a shoegaze-like intensity before arriving at a soaring, joyous conclusion. Like the majority of the songs found on 'ABSTRACT / NATURAL', the lyrics were written by Mez during his many adventures in the outdoors, on this occasion while exploring the fells and lush pastoral surroundings of the Lake District.
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Speaking on the track, he elaborates: "This track is a love song. Yan in old Cumbrian means 'one' so I'm saying 'The One'. This is the band's favourite track from the album. It's really dynamic, especially the middle-eight with all of its space and dreamlike textures that build to a monumental outro that we hope sounds like a journey towards new beginnings. Here's a fun fact: shepherds in the Lake District counted sheep by going yan, twee, tree, fower (1,2,3,4). I wrote the lyrics in the lakes."
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