Cracking the door further ajar and letting listeners take another step into their forthcoming, debut album The Lathums scatter seeds of their trademark, smile-wide optimism on their latest, beaming single, I’ll Get By. A skiffle-beat love letter to finding someone to lean on, the track is OUT NOW on Island Records.
Making and breaking records, the avalanche of support from fans to the band’s debut album announcement has swamped the band inside two weeks. Releasing the 12-track long-player, How Beautiful Life Can Be on Fri 24 September 2021, the four-piece smashed the pre-sales record of short-run, special vinyl edition label, Blood Records, selling out every copy of a 1,000 copy, zoetrope edition in just four minutes.
Hundreds of fans queued to meet the band at Wigan Market two weekends ago, grabbing limited edition merchandise, selfies and super-rare ‘first edition’ vinyl copies of the album.
Celebrating life-giving harvest that only true friendship can bring, I’ll Get By finds lyricist and front man, Alex Moore in glowing form once more. Plucking words with pure-of-heart innocence from the air around him, lines such as “maybe you’re the sculpture or you’re the statue / maybe you’re a king or maybe you’re my queen or maybe you are something in between” wraps giving arms around humankind as a whole and reminds anyone listening that they matter.
Recorded as part of energetic album sessions at Parr Street Studios, Liverpool, in the company of producers, James Skelly and Chris Taylor, the short and sweet single – clocking in at just two minutes and 30 seconds – may further deepen comparisons to lyrically dextrous indie poets such as Arctic Monkeys and The Smiths, whilst tremelo guitars and train beat percussion hint more strongly towards Moore’s 1950s influences including Elvis Presley and Patsy Cline.
Made up of the contemplative lyricist-singer plus Rickenbacker-slinging, Johnny Marr-acolyte, Scott Concepcion, Ryan Durrans on drums and the increasingly mysterious ‘Bass Mon Jon’, The Lathums have grabbed summer by the scruff of the neck by both announcing their debut album and returning triumphantly to the stage.
