Lunch Money Life

Cataclysmic hellfire crescendos are mangled with staggering percussion, shredding guitars and synths” Loud and Quiet

“Lunch Money Life bring something new to a London scene that has produced so many riches already” The Quietus

Following on from the success of this year’s Under The Mercies EP, which saw lead single “Jimmy J Sunset” nominated for Track of the Year at Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Awards, Lunch Money Life return with their latest single; “Telecommunion”. Mangled guitars collide with ecclesiastical bells, warped synths, lonesome auto-tuned vocals and a bashment-tinged rhythm section - resulting in a curious slice of angst-ridden rock’n’b that lands somewhere between 702, The Human League and Smashing Pumpkins.

London-based Lunch Money Life is a five-piece band with no remit; all their music is composed communally and spontaneously. Having released their debut album ‘Immersion Chamber’ as the crest of the pandemic crashed down across the world in 2020, and subsequent EPs ‘Tarmac The Lake’ in 2021 and ‘Under The Mercies’ in 2022. This year draws to a close with the five-piece sharing their most accomplished, daring, and vulnerable music to date, with the release of new single ‘Telecommunion’.

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, Lunch Money Life released debut album ‘Immersion Chamber’ and were immediately forced into an extended period of hibernation due to the pandemic. Thankfully, Spencer’s ongoing work as an organist for an East London diocese 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 two EP releases ‘Tarmac The Lake’ and ‘Under The Mercies’. 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.