Luka State (The) - More Than This

Exciting news

To Celebrate the release of their new album the Luka State will be joining us in the shop on Monday 13th March for a SIGNING SESSION starting at 5pm.

As you may know our shop is pretty tiny so we only have a VERY Limited amount of space / time  available for this session - All you have to do to Guarantee entry is pre order a copy of the album on any format below

No tickets are being issued once ordered your name automatically gets added to our door list

Albums will be ready to be picked up on the release day/ day of the event.

Tracklisting:

1. Bring Us Down
2. Oxygen Thief
3. Losing Streak
4. Two Worlds Apart
5. Stick Around
6. More Than This
7. Matter of Fact
8. Tightrope (Walking on a Wire)
9. Swimming Backwards
10. Metamorphosis
11. Change
12. Movies

Six tracks deep, in the very heart of the album sits the fiery title track ‘More Than This’.
Imagine early Arctic Monkeys multiplied by the breakneck urgency of Biffy Clyro and the
sharp tongued worldview of Paul Weller. It’s a damning portrait of a hungry family in a
broken Britain, as Ellis sings a song ‘For the broken hearted, from a broken home, let down
on the breadline, and this ain’t the first time’.
“That one’s about me delivering food for a food bank to a single mother of two who lost her
job, felt let down by the system and just wanted more,” says Ellis. “She was late on the rent,
had no money coming in, no food and just felt forgotten about. I just wanted to say, ‘Don’t
judge people without knowing them, always treat people with compassion’. Love always
wins.”
Hailing from Winsford – a forgotten town between Manchester and Liverpool – The Luka
State aren’t overly concerned with the loftier heights of the rock’n’roll dream. Their gritty new
album, ‘More Than This’, is an unapologetic state of the nation address, and a record born of
the only world they know. The bulk of the album was recorded at The Motor Museum in
Liverpool (previously used by The 1975 and Bring Me The Horizon) with producers Dan
Austin (You Me At Six, Pixies) and the Grammy Award-winning Adrian Bushby (Foo Fighters,
Muse). It’s a small space, chosen to reflect the claustrophobia and tension that the songs
were written in. The results are the most aggressive, visceral and immediate work of the
band to date, fearlessly exploring the darker shadows of modern working-class life.
The scorched desert rock of ‘Oxygen Thief’ spits back against an arsehole who sent Ellis’
mental health into a spiral, the wall-of-sound of ‘Losing Streak’ acts as what the singer calls
“a warm hug for anyone else battling addiction and trauma”, the rushing angular indie of
‘Two Worlds Apart’ speaks to anyone “feeling a little bit lost” and the arena-ready ‘Matter Of
Fact’ is a lovelorn yearning for a company and a little healing. “Does my love decay when I’m
not OK?” Ellis asks on the track, the centrepiece of a very human record that runs the gamut
of anxieties that come from needing to know what’s next in life and love. At every show,
they’re approached by fans who have been touched by their music and are grateful for
feeling less alone –regardless of where they’re from in the world.
“This album is a rebirth for us,” concludes Ellis. “Like every other band, we want to take over
the world, but we want our message to be heard. We’re not just some standard rock’n’roll
band. No one out there must feel alone. There’s a way through everything and we can do it
together. We can take over the world together.”