EASY LIFE DEBUT ALBUM life’s a beach OUT NOW
easy life announced details of their much-anticipated debut album life’s a beach, which was to be released on Interscope Records on June 4, but is now available on all platforms (one week early)! In March, the album was teased by its powerful opening track a message to myself, and includes standout singles nightmares, daydreams, and more future-classics from the British five-piece, who won ‘Best New British Act’ at the 2020 NME Awards.
Receiving its first play on BBC Radio 1 today, a message to myself is easy life’s most candid and cathartic moment to date. A symphonic essay on depression – and a rallying call for self-love – the band worked on the track alongside world-class producer BEKON, whose credits include Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN and BJ The Chicago Kid’s In My Mind. One of modern pop’s more unsuspecting stars, a message to myself, says Easy Life front-man Murray, “is a reminder to keep doing you. It’s a celebration of individualism at all costs. Be yourself, nobody can do you better.”
2021 marks easy life’s graduation as the world’s definitive and most exciting band around. Over the last few years, the group have paved their own way via a catalogue bursting with introspective, escapist, outsider-anthems. Their effortlessly accomplished mixtapes – creature habits, spaceships, and junk food (which featured Arlo Parks, their only duet to date) – have led the rascal band of brothers to debut their album, life’s a beach: a title that makes total sense, argues Murray, when you’re “from slap bang in the middle of the country, geographically as far from the nearest seaside as possible.” The beach of life’s a beach is not, then, a Caribbean hideaway. Observational, universal and deeply personal, this rounded study of forgotten small towns is the record easy life have spent their young lives working towards. The fact they’re set to release their debut album as the world enjoys – hopefully – a safe return to the beach seems oddly fitting amidst their unpredictable rise to date.
A band formed right down to the name itself as an escape, songs like a message to myself cement easy life’s place in the world – as musicians, as young men, and as beacons of positivity. “All the lyrics and everything that you hear throughout all of easy life is stuff that has moved me to write it,” Murray comments on his source of inspiration. “When I feel really lonely and anxious and all these things that everybody always feels, my salvation from that angst and that paranoia is making music to get it out there… because if you hold onto it, I can drown in my own self-pity.”
Murray also sums up their upcoming debut album – “it’s a record that wishes it was anywhere else but here, yet at the same time fixates on a dreary middle England existence.” This EP is about simple life and mundane existence, and there may be more rain on the way in their native Britain, but life’s a beach is easy life’s absolute moment in the sun.
a message to myself is out now.
Order easy life’s debut album life’s a beach HERE.
life’s a beach tracklist:
life’s a beach (interlude)
living strange
compliments
lifeboat
homesickness
music to walk home to
