WU LYF have shared their first new music in 14 years, a song called ‘A New Life Is Coming’.
Out now, the track, which you can listen to below, arrives off the back of the recent news that the band had reunited for their first live shows in 13 years, with a trio of shows locked in to take place in Manchester later this month alongside European festival shows this summer.
In a lengthy statement shared alongside the new song, the band said: “Twelve years after the fire burnt out, life had pulled us apart. We all had walked our separate paths trying to escape the shadow cast by the brief spectacle of our youth. Then something broke. Or healed.
“We set up camp in the loft of a friend’s bookshop behind unfamiliar instruments, familiar emotions, and we began to play, tentative at first but with open hearts and minds, seeking new forms unchained from what had been before. Old friends with new scars, trying not to aggravate the wounds of yesterday.
“We are all surprised by the big music that still plays itself through us, an unexpected gift after the longest exile, a gleaming fragment of then, magnified by who we are now. Raw and ecstatic, the fire transfigured. What it will become we do not know.
“You do not dig up the seed to see if it grows. You wait. You trust. You know the tree by its fruits. Our hands know what our minds forgot. This is something that was always there, waiting for us to remember. A new life is coming.”
WU LYF haven’t released new music since their sole album to date, 2011’s Go Tell Fire To The Mountain. They split in late 2012 having spent the year before that touring the record.
‘A New Life Is Coming’ is out now on L Y F Recordings.
