Manchester heavy pop / alt band WU LYF have premiered their new single “A New Life is Coming“, their first in 14 years.
The song, produced by Tom McClung, is out now and marks their first new music since breaking up in 2012. Grab it here.
WU LYF (World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation) originally became known for creating a mystery about themselves by declining requests for interviews and not releasing much information to the press. They released their debut album, ‘Go Tell Fire to the Mountain‘ in June 2011 on their own label L Y F Recordings.
The band have also announced they will be hitting the road across the UK and Europe later this year, including three UK shows at Salford’s Kings Arms. See the list of dates below.
The accompanying statement reads:
Something comes from nothing. Wu Lyf was always better left unspoken, experienced rather than discussed. Words killed it. You just had to feel it.
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.
Take a listen now.
Upcoming Live Dates
- 17 Apr – The Kings Arms, Salford
- 18 Apr – The Kings Arms, Salford
- 19 Apr – The Kings Arms, Salford
- 25 May – Les Nuits Botaniques, Brussels (Belgium)
- 13 Jun – Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek (Netherlands)
- 19 Jul – Midi Festival, Hyères (France)
- 7 Aug – Haldern Pop Festival, Haldern (Germany)
- 9 Aug – Ypsigrock, Sicily (Italy)
Photo credit: Jonathan Flanders
WU LYF “A New Life is Coming”
