Wu Lyf return with new music in 13 years and announce reside reveals
Wu Lyf are again and have dropped a brand new single in addition to a lot of reside tour dates – take a look at the small print under.
The Manchester indie band confirmed they’d reunited with a brand new replace on their web site, sharing a model new single and revealing that they are going to be hitting the street throughout the UK and Europe later this 12 months.
It comes after the band received followers speaking earlier this 12 months, hinting {that a} reunion was coming. Based on Stereogum, one fan on Reddit claimed to have obtained a postcard from the group telling them to go to the worldunite.org web site. After they did so, they discovered a mysterious clock counting all the way down to April 2.
Information of the return additionally comes after it was shared in February that Misplaced In Heaven – the group that frontman Ellery Roberts shaped after Wu Lyf cut up in 2012 – have been disbanding. They introduced their time as a band was coming to an finish with the farewell single ‘Creation Track’.
Now, a brand new six-minute single has appeared on Wu Lyf’s web site, together with a brand new put up on Instagram indicating that it’s referred to as ‘A New Life Is Coming’.
The brand new monitor contains an ethereal mix of instrumentals from the opening word, and step by step builds into ‘00s-inspired indie epic, harking back to what first put the band on the map and earned them an enormous cult following.
“All of the merry folks,” Roberts sings in a clean, sombre tone after the track builds up with the wealthy instrumental layering. “Taking their time, operating out of air.”
You may check out the song by visiting the web site and clicking the ‘Play’ button.
Earlier this week, the band dropped hints at a brand new announcement on their Instagram web page, sharing each a black-and-white teaser of a jukebox in Manchester, in addition to sandwich boards that had their emblem on throughout town. Take a look at the posts under.
In addition to the brand new music, Wu Lyf have additionally introduced a handful of latest tour dates, together with three UK reveals at Salford’s Kings Arms. The gigs will happen later this month with the band set to play April 17, 18 and 19.
From there, they’ll head to Belgium on Might 25 for a present at Les Nuits Botaniques in Brussels, earlier than additional reveals in The Netherlands, France, Germany and Italy.
Discover tickets here, and take a look at a listing of upcoming reveals under.
Wu Lyf’s reside reveals are:
APRIL
17 – The Kings Arms, Salford
18 – The Kings Arms, Salford
19 – The Kings Arms, Salford
MAY
25 – Les Nuits Botaniques, Brussels (Belgium)
JUNE
13 – Greatest Stored Secret, Hilvarenbeek (Netherlands)
JULY
19 – Midi Pageant, Hyères (France)
AUGUST
7 – Haldern Pop Pageant, Haldern (Germany)
9 – Ypsigrock, Sicily (Italy)
Wu Lyf shaped in the summertime of 2008, with their title standing for World Unite Lucifer Youth Basis. They went on to share their debut album ‘Go Inform Fireplace To The Mountain’ in June 2011.
Throughout their time as a band, the members – Ellery Roberts, Evans Kati, Tom McClung, Joe Manning – gathered an enormous cult following with Johnny Marr a vocal fan.
In 2012, they began hinting at new materials earlier than deciding to name it quits. They confirmed the information whereas on stage on the Manchester HMV Ritz venue, with the frontman telling the gang “Goodbye endlessly”.
“All of us knew it wasn’t working,” drummer Joe Manning instructed NME in April 2013. “There’s nobody clarification for it. There’s 1,000,000 causes that don’t quantity to rather more than it simply didn’t work. No-one is making an attempt to cowl something up. If it doesn’t work it’s going to interrupt finally.”
In addition to the frontman happening to type Misplaced In Heaven, Manning, McClung, and Evans Kati then went on to make music beneath the title Los Porcos, together with three members of the band FAMY.