LUNCH MONEY LIFE
BIO
Lunch Money Life make apocalypse music, impossible to categorise, rich in texture, immersing the listener in a world of disgust and yearning - 'Immersion Chamber' is the perfect embodiment of that. Full of foreboding energy, restless beats and agitated noise: it's mardy electronics married with tense jazz-tinged and combative drumming.
Lunch Money Life are Stewart Hughes (drums), Sean Keating (guitar), Luke Mills-Pettigrew (bass), Jack Martin (electronics/trombone) & Spencer Martin (electronics/saxophone). A few years ago, Spencer wrote to 50 churches in East London looking for a job as an organist - one responded, All Saints Haggerston, where he still plays every Sunday. In a city where traditional rehearsal is near unaffordable, this was a lifeline for the band during its early, experimental period. It is the results of this period - filtered through the outboard analogue ceremonies of co-producer Danalogue (The Comet Is Coming) - that make up 'Immersion Chamber'.
The band initially featured 10 members, a loose collective now (somewhat) sharpened ahead of album release, as documented in an electric Boiler Room set at the end of 2019.
Bubbling on the fringes of the London music scene for years, between them creating & sculpting Church of Sound, Total Refreshment Centre, Touching Bass & Tiff’s Joints. In the wake of 2018’s sold-out collaboration with Jamaican outfit Equiknoxx - Living3000 EP - the group has released lunchmoneylife STYLES™, a label compilation in the form of a cereal box, and Unlimited Ice Cream Palace EP on Kaya Kaya Records, featuring remixes by King Knut and Captain Terence McDonagh.
MUSIC
Lunch Money Life make apocalypse music, impossible to categorise, rich in texture, immersing the listener in a world of disgust and yearning - 'Immersion Chamber' is the perfect embodiment of that. Full of foreboding energy, restless beats and agitated noise: it's mardy electronics married with tense jazz-tinged and combative drumming. Or what The Quietus calls ““dizzying drum machines, wistful guitars, and brass sounds that punch through the miasma”. Each track filtered through the outboard analogue ceremonies of co-producer & mixing engineer Danalogue (The Comet Is Coming). Immersion Chamber will see a North American release October 30th on Fire Talk.
1st Pressing
Clear Vinyl - 300 Copies
Black Vinyl - 400 Copies
Royal Blue Vinyl (Indie Retail Exclusive) - 300 Copies
The idea behind reimagining of "Lincoln" with legendary vocalist Flowdan was to create something unexpected, exciting & genre confounding. Although Lunch Money Life have the reputation as one of the most explosive new live bands in London recent events have given them time in studio to push the boundaries. The Lincoln VIP draws on the original's atmospheric sound-palate to create a sparse left field grime anthem lending a fresh dystopian viewpoint for the stand out 'Immersion Chamber' track.
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Loraine James. On the heels of her Hyperdub-released EP ‘Nothing’, which received praise from outlets such as Loud & Quiet , Resident Advisor, as well as prior cosigns from Pitchfork, the Quietus, Fact Magazine and more. Loraine’s moody rework perfectly complements Lunch Money Life’s “bizarrely brilliant soundscapes” (DIY), a glitchy, elongated take on the band’s already otherworldly musical template. An essential addition to a record already perfectly soundtracking these end of times. "Immersion Chamber" will see a North American release this Friday October 30th.
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