Lunch Money Life

The next single from Lunch Money Life’s forthcoming album sees the band make another sharp left turn. ‘In Jesus Name’ begins as a soft skygazing love song, featuring a duet with close band affiliate Love Interest, before exploding into a dramatic choral climax, complete with ecstatic organs, shredding guitars and stadium sized drums as the two voices fantasise about their love affair finally finding space in the desolate clarity of the post-apocalypse. To read more about Lunch Money Life’s forthcoming album The God Phone and the story behind it click here.

The band have the following to say about the track: “‘In Jesus Name’ is another track that seems to have been divinely delivered into our hands, lungs and tongues. It was made even more special by our dear friend Love Interest's contribution. We wanted to pack it with as much drama and emotion as we could so we tapped up a local choir who elevated it to realms we could never have imagined”

Lunch Money Life Bio

Lunch Money Life is a five-piece band with no remit. All music is composed communally and spontaneously. Having released their debut album Immersion Chamber as the crest of the pandemic crashed down across the world, the group (consisting of Jack and Spencer Martin on keys, electronics and vocals, Stewart Hughes on drums, Luke Mills-Pettigrew on bass and Sean Keating on guitar) were forced into an extended period of hibernation around its release. Thankfully, Spencer’s ongoing work as an organist for an East London diocese eventually afforded them access, time and space to turn their music inside out in a cold and cavernous local church hall. 

It was during this forced hiatus from performing live and recording that the band were able to totally deconstruct, rebuild and refine their music, returning with a more rugged, adept and poised sound. The immediate result of this intense and isolated period can be heard on their most recent EP’s; 2021’s Tarmac The Lake and 2022’s Under The Mercies, for which the latter’s lead single, ‘Jimmy J Sunset’, was nominated for “Track of the Year” at Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Awards. While both releases give a clear insight into Lunch Money Life’s current creative world, it’s their live show that offers the most unmediated and unadulterated way to experience their music, combining the energy of the most unhinged punk show with the tightness of the most well rehearsed jazz fusion group and the ecstatic dynamics of the most dramatic club music, often topped off with an unhealthily large dose of hazers and the occasional flash bang and/or military strength smoke grenade. 

As 2023 begins to gather steam, the five-piece ready their most accomplished, daring, and vulnerable music to date. Recorded at the legendary Church Studios in North London, their forthcoming album, The God Phone, is the soundtrack to a feature-length theological thriller. Twenty five years after science proves the existence of God, a global council consolidates its power with technology that allows them to communicate directly with the heavens.

The current single from Lunch Money Life’s forthcoming album sees the band make another sharp left turn. ‘In Jesus Name’ begins as a soft skygazing love song, featuring a duet with close band affiliate Love Interest, before exploding into a dramatic choral climax, complete with ecstatic organs, shredding guitars and stadium sized drums as the two voices fantasise about their love affair finally finding space in the desolate clarity of the post-apocalypse. To read more about Lunch Money Life’s forthcoming album The God Phone and the story behind it click here.

The band have the following to say about the video: “We knew we had to shoot a video for this tune. As soon as we finished recording, we sent the director, Spencer Young, a link to the November Rain video. After several frenzied creative retreats, a narrative of self-love was born - complete with sheep-shearing doppelgängers, balaclava’d choirs, and breast milk”