How Beautiful Life Can Be The Lathums

• 1 Circles Of Faith 03:29
• 2 I'll Get By 02:30
• 3 Fight On (2021 Master) 02:48
• 4 How Beautiful Life Can Be 02:46
• 5 The Great Escape (2021 Master) 03:48
• 6 I Won't Lie 02:50
• 7 I See Your Ghost 02:31
• 8 Oh My Love 02:20
• 9 I'll Never Forget The Time I Spent With You 03:13
• 10 I Know That Much (2021 Master) 03:21
• 11 Artificial Screens (2021 Master) 05:14
• 12 The Redemption Of Sonic Beauty 03:56
• Total Runtime 38:46

Info for How Beautiful Life Can Be

How Beautiful Life Can Be is The Lathums’ debut album. How Beautiful Life Can Be, recorded at Parr Street Studios, Liverpool. In the company of producers, James Skelly and Chris Taylor, pushes The Lathums’ remarkable story into the next, even more exciting phase. The Great Escape, having been previously self-released by the young band, emerges from the album sessions in sparkling, new form, whilst retaining the melodic stardust that caused the first rumblings of the social-media led stampede to their early gigs. Kick-started by growing pains and life’s unlucky twists, fuelled by the simple salvation of six guitar strings and supercharged by the fans that found them slogging their gear into the north of England’s pubs and small venues, The Lathums story may turn out to be the perfect not-all-nice-guys-finish-last tale.

It was only in the summer 2019 that the band’s fuse was lit by Tim Burgess, who offering them a late slot at Kendal Calling where, inside 24 hours, social media chatter caused their audience to spill into the field beyond their tent. A year later they had achieved their first UK Album Chart Top 20 for vinyl-only EP compilation, The Memories We Make, recorded their debut appearance for Later… With Jools Holland and joined the BBC Sound Poll 2021 list of tipped acts at the end of a year that skidded on the black ice of a global pandemic but, somehow, left the band on their feet. For a band whose singing songwriter had never been to a gig before playing his own, yet incomprehensibly carried a trunk load of sensitively-crafted, empathetic, sing-a-long anthems straight into their first rehearsal, The Lathums have flown at nosebleed speed to where they are now.

Hailing from Wigan on the overlooked fringes of Greater Manchester, The Lathums are Alex Moore, casting a new outline of the modern frontman, singing alongside student of the Marr-esque jangle guitar, Scott Concepcion, rapid-fire, wise-cracking bassist, Jonny Cunliffe (aka: Bass Mon Jon) and the steady, rhythmic, wise head, Ryan Durrans on drums. Pithily described by those closest as ‘like The Inbetweeners in a Shane Meadows film’, they are four bright, wild flowers growing between grey paving stones.

The Lathums

The Lathums
British four-piece, The Lathums cite the melodic worlds and street hymns of The Smiths, The Beatles, Stone Roses and The Ramones amongst their influences.

Singer-songwriter Alex Moore simply believes in ‘making positive changes’. He writes about his digitised generation and reflects on young Britain turning its back on materialism and vacuity. The band is swelled with self-assured positivity and their dreams that an audience would one day identify with their movement to make positive changes are poetically penned into their songs.

This album contains no booklet.