Indescribable and undefinable, Leicester’s Easy Life hop, skip and jump effortlessly across a head-spinning range of genres, their sound fusing everything including hip-hop, psychedelic electronica, jazz, indiepop, ambient house, and much, much more. The band say they were formed “on a whim” in a pub two years ago, and their first single Pockets picked up a huge amount of buzz almost immediately. “Pockets is four-and-a-half minutes long and it’s not very commercial, but ironically it was that song that got a moderate commercial seal of approval,” says frontman Murray Matravers. “That was a massive deal for us, because we were just five dudes from Leicester rehearsing on an industrial estate.” Their music is enshrouded with personal experience, but with a distinctly rainy British outlook. “The overarching thing is the idea that life can get a bit crap, but everything’s going to be OK,” Matravers tells the BBC. “It’s quite a British outlook to grit your teeth and smile – but I can’t help it, that’s my general outlook.”
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