UK indie-pop outfit Easy Life has finally revealed that their highly anticipated debut album Life’s a Beach will arrive on June 4.
Released via Island Records, the Leceister five-piece band has already set the bar high with their 2020 releases “Dead Celebrities,” and “Daydreams.” Now with Life’s a Beach, fans will get the full sonic picture of Easy Life’s evolution as they reflect on self-love and acceptance.
Not one to rest on their laurels, the band have also announced their new single “A message to myself” which will serve as the opening track on Life’s a Beach. Premiering on BBC Radio 1, the track is an ode to self-love as well as self-acceptance and individuality in the face of outside pressures. Working with producer BEKON on the track, whose credits include Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN, this new track teases both the band’s experimentation in sound and the overall mantra that fans can expect in their long-awaited debut.
our debut album is called ‘life’s a beach’ and is out 4th june https://t.co/P4a9MhuMpl pic.twitter.com/PwY73aEUal
— easy life (@easylife) March 23, 2021
Easy Life’s upcoming album taps into the mentality of middle Englanders who find themselves furthest from the picturesque coasts of the northern European island. Observational, universal, and deeply personal, Life’s a Beach serves as a rounded study of forgotten Britain, an area of the country that is neither north nor south.
Describing their debut album, the band’s frontman Murray Matravers discusses how they used the album to tap into those feelings and how they come hand in hand with growing up in the middle of the British Isles, saying “it’s a record that wishes it was anywhere else but here, yet at the same time fixates on a dreary middle England existence.”
The band made up of Matravers, Oliver Cassidy, Sam Hewitt, Lewis Alexander Berry, and Jordan Birtles, first hit the scene in 2018 with their debut mixtape Creature Habits in April. Since then, the group has paved their own way via a catalog bursting with introspective, escapist, outsider-anthems as they’ve evolved as a group, winning Best New British Act at the 2020 NME Awards.
Following the release of their 2020 mixtape Junk Food, NME wrote, “Here’s proof here that Easy Life are becoming some of Britain’s most astute and witty songwriters.”
Life’s a Beach is out on June 4 and can be bought here.
