Sofa Session: easy life

easy life play a Sofa Session for Jo, including music from their debut album, life’s a beach.

easy life’s debut album, ‘life’s a beach’, has a title that makes total sense, argues easy life front-man 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. It’s Margate and Morecombe, the postcard imagery of Martin Parr, the swimming pool of Sexy Beast.

A band formed right down to the name itself as an escape (wherever you’re from, or from your inner demons), songs like ‘a message to myself’ cement easy life’s place in the world - as musicians, as young men, and as beacons of positivity. Or as Murray 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.”

‘life’s a beach’ follows easy life’s accomplished mixtapes – ‘creature habits’, ‘spaceships’, and ‘junk food’ (which charted in the top 10 and featured their only duet to date, Arlo Parks). The Leicester five-piece won ‘Best New British Act’ at the 2020 NME Awards, and have amassed a huge live audience around the world with their unique brand of optimism.