LIFE announce fourth album ABSTRACT / NATURAL — share ferocious new single “The Dollywaggon”

Today, the four-piece announce their fourth studio album, ABSTRACT / NATURAL, due 19 June 2026, alongside their first new music in four years: blistering lead single “The Dollywaggon.” The record lands via Launchpad+ in partnership with EMI North.

“The Dollywaggon” is a sharp-edged reintroduction to a band writing with renewed freedom and conviction. Built on razor-wire guitars, swirling synths and surgically precise drums, the track finds frontman Mez Sanders-Green delivering near stream-of-consciousness reflections on escape, self-reckoning and restless momentum. It’s LIFE at their most vivid: urgent, exploratory, and rooted in place.

Written while Mez was walking a 193-mile coast-to-coast route across northern England, the song traces a physical and emotional journey from the West Coast, over the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, across the moors and finally home to the East Coast. Mez describes it as “a pulpy Northern-based western” — full of cryptic placards, strange characters and Mother Earth always getting the last word.

That sense of movement powers the whole of ABSTRACT / NATURAL. Characters drawn from landscape and folklore collide with reflections on fatherhood, freedom and personal evolution, forming LIFE’s most expansive and experimental body of work yet. The album began life as poetry — Mez’s written musings on nature, love and letting go — before evolving into what the band call “wonky lullabies,” with hills, ridges and landmarks transformed into living characters like Hen Comb, Pavey Arc and The Dollywaggon.

Produced by Stewart Baxter with Oliver Varga, mixed by James Kenosha and mastered by Stephen Kerrison, the album was recorded at the band’s own Hull studio, The Moon Factory — a self-built creative hub on the riverbank that now supports emerging Northern artists.