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Lunch Money Life
Lunch Money Life
country: UK
genre: Alternative
styles: Experimental, Jazz, Electronic, Instrumental, Psychedelic
Human Sacrifice
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London-based boundary pushing quintet Lunch Money Life recently released their industrial, shapeshifting EP ‘Tarmac the Lake’ via Wolf Tone . To launch the EP the band performed at The Trinity Centre, London, and are now releasing a live video of one of the EP standouts ‘Human Sacrifice’.
Using the aforementioned church that Spencer Martin plays organ for as their rehearsal space, plus sporadic sessions elsewhere, over the past few years Lunch Money Life – completed by his friends Stewart Hughes, Sean Keating and Luke Mills-Pettigrew, plus his brother Jack – recorded what would become their debut album, 2020’s ‘Immersion Chamber’. It’s a record that runs the gamut; combining gorgeous and glacial swells of electronically augmented brass, skull-rattling heavy psych grooves and more, with nimble twists and turns of pace at every corner of its labyrinthine structure.
Thanks in part to a supreme mixing job by Danalogue, of The Comet Is Coming it was a dark and dramatic trip, what the band semi-jokingly (and somewhat prophetically, given that it was released just a month into the first coronavirus lockdown) described as ‘apocalypse music’. If at their most sporadic they could produce a record so intense, they wondered, just how far could they take it going forwards?
The band had been active in one form or another for almost a decade, since they started as the twelve-piece musical wing of a charity venture that failed to take off, but when their debut album was finished they hit the reset button. At the same time, the band moved churches following repeated robberies – the hard drive containing all their music survived only by chance – upping sticks to a sister church in Hackney, which has a lockable inside door. Concurrently they streamlined their gear, the Martin brothers cramming their sprawling equipment into custom-made live setups.
For all their theatrics on record, Lunch Money Life’s peak has always been found when playing live with one another. They deliver a blistering show, pushing their considerable instrumental skills to the brink of all-out collapse, yet like so many others the band were entirely deprived of that release once lockdown began last March. Now the end is in sight, Lunch Money Life are not just at their sharpest, but their boldest too.
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