LIFE are on the front foot with new ‘Rare Boots’ single

Every weekday, DIY’s new music know-it-all Neu brings you one essential new release to get obsessed with. Today’s Neu Pick comes from LIFE.

There’s something brilliantly snide about the bond shared by Mez and Mick, Hull punks LIFE’s brotherly duo of frontmen. Spitting barbed statements on the minutiae of modern life atop their thrashing, noisy backdrop, they pull no punches.

‘Rare Boots’, the group’s latest single, is captivating further evidence of just how few fucks this lot give. Taking the snotty, smily attitude of Yak and sharpening every point, they gleefully point the finger at everything around them, content to storm forward on their own terms. “I keep hearing voices calling my name,” they yelp as the track reaches its rollicking conclusion - the bright future ahead of them suggest they’d better get used to it.

Stream ‘Rare Boots’ below - it comes ahead of a bunch of dates for the road-tested gang, including a DIY Presents night at London’s Old Blue Last next weekend. Full dates are as follows:

MAY
21 London, The Old Blue Last (DIY Presents - free show)

JUNE
04 Tulse Hill, Railway Tavern
09 Newcastle, Head Of Steam
10 Scunthorpe, Cafe IndiePendent
12 Hull, The Adelphi (Ultra Festival)

JULY
08 Cheltenham, 2000 Trees Festival