Hot for 2020 International Acts: Easy Life

They’ve only just started out, but already this Leicester five-piece have appeared on Later…With Jools Holland and shared a bill with Lewis Capaldi. With a cathartic sound, they see themselves on the frontline in terms of articulating the pain of Generation Austerity. They, for instance, describe early single ‘Pockets’ as “essentially documenting that terrible sinking feeling of realising you can’t quite afford to pay this month’s rent due to your own stupidity; an unsettling emotion that is unshakable, too familiar and hangs over us like a dead albatross”.

Hear: ‘Nightmares’ has over 12 million Spotify plays and with good reason: it’s an open-veined love song that somehow carves out territory between Slowthai, Alt-J and the Beta Band.

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