This Heart Has Been Broken EP
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"The music from THE LIFE AND DEATH feels like a ceremony. These are punks with souls."
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"The music from THE LIFE AND DEATH feels like a ceremony. These are punks with souls."
THE LIFE AND DEATH have injected a new energy into the London UK underground, thrilling crowds with their emotional, dynamic live shows.
The songs are of love and heartbreak; hope and despair; belonging and betrayal. And the sound is explosive and catchy as hell.
Music for the lost, the hopeful and the brave of heart.
Since 2015, there have been five self-produced releases and a string of packed-out shows at some of London's most important and iconic underground venues.
A major new release from THE LIFE AND DEATH is scheduled for 2023.
"We need song-slingers like this, we need that commitment, we need people who throw it all and more in there or indeed out there. There’s some beautiful detail in Hey Sister, some heartfelt joy, is it joy? Is it a cry? Hey sisters, hey brothers. It kind of feels like a stolen look through the cracks, a sneaked view into a private sketch book of songs." Organ
"The late visionary Jim Morrison insisted that people are afraid of both life and death. Exposing yourself to those fears will cause them to shrink and vanish, leaving freedom and power in their place.
Similarly, the music from THE LIFE AND DEATH feels like a ceremony, bringing shaky, uncertain listeners to a state of communion, washed free of fear with its audibly pulsating heartbeat of new wave rock. These are punks with souls." LSR
"Illustrious and dark. From the beginning it gave me the chills." RGM
"What a magnificent vocal. A fresh and new style of new-wave and post-punk." Chatsong
"#bestof2016 – Ranked No.1 on EPs this year" 90.3 FM WMSC
"#bestof2016" RKC
AUTUMN 2023 RESIDENCY. LONDON
OCT / NOV / DEC 2023
Thursday 5th October 2023
+ Romeo Spy
Thursday 9th November 2023
+ Shade Ray + Amlis Vess + Manny
Wednesday 6th December 2023
+ The Colour + Ms Mohammed
at:
The Hope & Anchor
207 Upper Street, London N1 1RL
"The music from THE LIFE AND DEATH feels like a ceremony. These are punks with souls."
You can buy all our back catalogue and future releases for high-quality download or to stream (via the lovely Bandcamp app). It's super easy to make the purchases and you can buy individual tracks or collections. You can also choose to subscribe and get access to all our releases both now and in the future that way.
Once you subscribe, you get access to all our releases to date, which you can download in high-quality audio formats or stream as much as you like via the Bandcamp app on your mobile devices. You'll get instant access to all the new material we're going to be releasing and there will also be access to exclusive tracks and more.
We've launched subscription at £3 per month and you will always pay the same subscription fee that you sign up with, no matter if it goes up in the future.
Why are we doing this? Well, we want to start using a model that will help support us and that will, at the same time, help us support The Life and Death community. When you subscribe, you're helping to support us in a sustainable way with the new material we're working to bring you. You can, alternatively, buy releases for individual download/streaming, if you prefer to do it that way.
No. We are not currently putting our releases out on the open streaming platforms? Why? Because they are just not working for us (and, we would say, for the majority of artists). They don't support us, pay us fairly or give us anything that works for us as artists. Who knows? Maybe we might do something with some of them at some point in the future. But only if things change.
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