{"id":20729,"date":"2020-01-15T10:48:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T10:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/?p=20729"},"modified":"2020-01-15T11:02:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T11:02:24","slug":"review-easy-life-at-the-y-theatre-friday-10th-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/review-easy-life-at-the-y-theatre-friday-10th-january-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Review – Easy Life at The Y Theatre, Friday 10th January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The boys are back in town. Easy Life<\/strong> proves that you can have it all in spite and because of Leicester.<\/p>\n

Since releasing their breakthrough single Pockets in 2017, they\u2019ve been marked with a curse of inevitable success. Three years and a bunch of sold-out shows later, playing big boy set at Coachella and fooling around while filming Dead Celebrities<\/em> video in California, they\u2019re going into the new decade with a bang. Back on the road with Meal Deal tour, promoting their still-hot new EP Junk Food<\/em>, they stepped off the highway and took a leap into the past with two hometown gigs.<\/p>\n

Not bothered with support acts, they\u2019ve put on Scarlxrd\u2019s DJ, Jacky P, to get the crowd boogying to the kinda mainstream, though slapping, tunes.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Jacky P by Kevin Gaughan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the groovy set, and about 100 college kids more, Easy Life finally hopped on to the stage, opening with climate issues tackling, wobbly tune, Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite having a young mass of devoted fan(atic)s who were somehow able to mosh to their chill tunes, Easy Life ain\u2019t another teenage sensation. Their sync, hip-hop\/jazz-influenced and genre-jumping, pop balances on the edge of existential crisis and hedonistic escapism. An invite to spend melancholy Mondays in the fast cars, taking your next-door crushes to Maccies for 4am dates to talk about sex, dreams and despair. Life\u2019s easy when you don\u2019t care. And if you do, put it into a song.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Easy Life by Kevin Gaughan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While The Y Theatre set featured oldies (though still slapping) like Nightmares<\/em>, iconic Pockets<\/em> and, so moving that I almost cried, OJPL<\/em>; it was Junk Food\u2019s night. ‘We\u2019ve been \u2018ridin’ with my models in the back of a cop car\u2019 to Dead Celebrities<\/em>, a stand-out un L.A. lush lifestyle, getting love-sick on Sangria (sweet even without Arlo Parks) and picking up pieces to Spiders<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Easy Life by Kevin Gaughan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Easy Life has to been seen live. There\u2019s something charming, crowd-uniting about them. Something that makes you think that they\u2019re still your local band, not the soon-to-be UK sensation.
\nSome bands are taking politics seriously, stuffing us with re-heated and pre-digested slogans. Some have a sense of humour, put hot-dog outfits on and show off naked Donald Trump (Nice Guys<\/em> video) to give you a break from heart-breaking reality.<\/p>\n

Catching up with life\u2019s absurdity, the new musical revolution will be full-blown ridiculous and abstract. Something exciting is cooking up and it smells like junk food.
\nThe debut album is due this year.<\/p>\n

Easy Life on Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n

Reviewed by Aleksandra Brzezicka<\/a><\/p>\n

Organised by Rough Trade Nottingham<\/a><\/p>\n

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