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British band Easy Life dropped their brand new single and official music video for “Earth” [listen HERE] following its first play as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record in The World on BBC Radio 1 today. The hotly-tipped Leicester five-piece continue their extensive run of festival dates this month, following a headline set at Glastonbury’s BBC Introducing stage and additional appearances including Coachella in California and Governors Ball in NYC.
Watch the video for “Earth” HERE.
Fresh from recent mixtape ‘Spaceships’ and acclaimed lead single “Sunday,” “Earth” continues Easy Life’s galactic ascent as the most exciting new band from the UK right now.
With a surreal video directed by Sophie Muller, shot in Morocco, the group’s playful mix of hip-hop, R&B, trippy electronics and confessional pop may make “Earth” feel effortless, but its lyrical truths run deeper. “The world is a f*cked up place, and sometimes it can feel terribly isolating,” says lead singer Murray, having worked on a farm all his life and become a passionate environmental advocate. On “Earth,” Easy Life set out to write a song addressing the fact that “we are running out of resources, and the future is looking bleak” but with the typically-positive spin of a band who, as the lyrics to “Earth” put it, ultimately speak for those who “don’t feel at home on this planet.”
In what’s already been a breakout 2019, Easy Life have continued to evolve their wry and affecting way with the minutiae of everyday life. Multi-instrumental, multi-tasking and multi-talented, here is a band of musically curious and lyrically open young men, whose work has quickly earned them an impassioned global fan-base. Whether tackling the future of the planet or, as a recent B-side had it, “Spaghetti Hoops,” Easy Life represent that new generation who are as attune to Chance The Rapper as they are Arctic Monkeys (but always in search of that next great band). And right from debut single “Pockets” to the “Creature Habits” and ‘Spaceships’ projects, Easy Life’s deeply personal yet broadly universal storytelling has staked their claim to be ‘that’ band that everyone is talking about.
To go to Easy Life’s dizzyingly accomplished live shows is to watch the crowd (already) sing back every word, and quite possibly bring their own lemons. And so like the best of things, what started out as a bit of fun for Easy Life has quickly become an attitude to live by: one in which nothing is off limits (musically, lyrically, emotionally) and nothing – however bleak your situation, or your location – is irreversible. “Earth,” after all, is in our hands.