WU LYF

I forgot that Manchester's WU LYF got back together.  And they just dropped their new "A Wave that Will Never Break" album on Friday.  Dig on the great new track "The Fool" below and download the album here from the band.

Wu Lyf

Wu Lyf was a short-lived noisy indie rock band from Manchester who broke up right after the release of their 2011 full-length debut "Go Tell Fire to the Mountain."  Over the last decade plus, front man Ellery James Roberts has made music with LUH (Lost Under Heaven) who broke up earlier this year.  And now we've got a new Wu Lyf track, so i guess we're all still even.  It's great.  Check out "A New Life Is Coming" below and download it here from the band.

Lost Under Heaven - The Breath of Light

I've been a fan of Ellery James Roberts' music for a long time, ever since his days in the now defunct band WU LYF, but i've got to say that his material as Lost Under Heaven (or LUH) has been a broader showcase of his talent than his old band ever was.  New song "The Breath of Light" never quite hits the bombast that 2016's "Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing" LP did, but it's still a bubbling ode of emotion.  Listen below...and definitely go back and listen to that 2016 album if you never have.  It's vastly under appreciated.

LUH - Beneath the Concrete

We are finally getting an album from former WU LYF frontman Ellery James Roberts' ongoing project LUH (Lost Under Heaven) in a couple weeks from Mute.  Watch the video for the anthemic "Beneath the Concrete" below and preorder the "Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing" LP here.

LUH - I&I

LUH, or Lost Under Heaven, the project of former WU LYF front man Ellery James Roberts and Ebony Hoorn have a new track, "I&I," out with an accompanying video.  It features production from The Haxan Cloak and is as somber and gorgeous as anything else you'll hear today.  The duo recently signed to Mute, so hopefully we'll get an official release before the year is up.  Watch and listen below.

LUH.

So the band name LUH., which apparently meas "Lost Under Heaven," is a little obnoxious, but the music therein is ready built to blast you out of the back of an arena somewhere.  Former WU LYF frontman Ellery James Roberts is back with his signature gasping howl, and he sounds like a hungover Springsteen swinging for the fences on "Unites."  The guy just excels at epic wailing tracks (see last year's "Kerou's Lament"), and this one burrows its way right into your cranial folds.  Listen below.

Ellery James Roberts

I had the wonderful good fortune to come by the first single from former Wu Lyf front man Ellery James Roberts.  "Kerou's Lament" is a screamed hymn in a swirl of synth symphonics, blasts of horns, reverb, cymbal crashes, and wrenching, personal vocals.  It's the sound of an anguished Bruce Springsteen lamenting the world that spawned him.  It's glorious.  High, high hopes for the Englishman's future output.  Watch the video below.