LIFE - ABSTRACT / NATURAL: Blue/Green/Yellow Splatter Vinyl LP + Alternative Artwork DINKED EDITION EXCLUSIVE 394 *Pre-Order

Released Friday 19th June 2026
All pre orders will be fulfilled/made ready for collection on that date.

DINKED EXCLUSIVE 394

DINKED EDITION 394 £26.99

• • UPS Brown vinyl *

  • 8.5” x 8.5” signed & numbered poster of front cover painting *

  • Additional 8.5” x 8.5” poster with postcard, origami van, maze, horoscope embedded *

  • Bonus track download (QR code on poster) *

  • Limited pressing of 250

*EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition

Side A

Wild Grasses
The Dollywaggon 
Turning In
Thistles Kiss
Mermaid Feet

Side B

My Yan
Drinking Games
Sun In Nancy
Buried Giant
Morning Fog

Proudly independent and deeply rooted in community, LIFE are a tightly-bonded collective whose creative world has always extended far beyond their music. On ABSTRACT / NATURAL, that world expands further still. 

Lead single ‘The Dollywaggon’ stands as a compelling entry point to the record as a whole. Built on razor-sharp guitars, swirling synths and lightning-quick, surgically precise drumming, the track finds frontman Mez Sanders-Green delivering near stream-of-consciousness reflections from a protagonist caught between escape and self-reckoning (“I never wanted to leave myself, but I’m leaving now”), and driven by a restless sense of adventure: “the placard reads right to roam, and the boy is roaming”. Written while Mez was walking the 193-mile UK coast-to-coast route, 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.

That sense of movement runs throughout ABSTRACT / NATURAL. Characters rooted in folklore and landscape sit alongside reflections on fatherhood, freedom and personal evolution, forming a body of work that feels both intimate and outward-looking. The album began life not in a rehearsal room, but on the pages of a poetry book frontman Mez has been writing; a collection of musings on landscape, nature, love, acceptance and letting go. Hearing melodies embedded in his words, Mez began presenting fragments to the band as “wonky lullabies”, turning hills, ridges and landmarks into characters: Hen Comb, Pavey Arc, Sergeant Man, The Grey Friar and The Dollywaggon. From there, bandmates Stewart Baxter, Lydia Palmeira and Mick Sanders shaped the music around these narratives, instinctively weaving them into vivid arrangements that collectively present a fully-realised universe. 

Produced by Stewart Baxter and Oliver Varga, mixed by James Kenosha and mastered by Stephen Kerrison, ABSTRACT / NATURAL was recorded at LIFE’s own studio in Hull (The Moon Factory); a space the band built themselves on the banks of the river and now run as a creative hub for emerging Northern artists.  

The result is LIFE’s most expansive and experimental work to date: story-rich, exploratory and beautifully rooted in a sense of place. 

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