This song is anthem material right now. Today, the world unites under the cause of OCCUPY “Capitalism, democracy, wall street, whatever” across the globe, in solidarity with the growing movement in the States. I’m thrilled to bring you this music today, because this band is gonna be big, and big for the right reasons, because they have some important sH*t to say.
WU LYF, pronounced “woo life” which stands for World Unite, Lucifer Youth Foundation is a shadowed group from Manchester, UK that have cleverly avoiding the spotlight since their conception, I assume to finish their recently released LP, “Go Tell Fire to the Mountain.” Before the release, all you could find from them is a few singles on their apocalyptic website, http://www.wulyf.org, including the song HEAVY POP which has had me gritting my teeth in a woozy tribal dance for months.
The music is unstable post-rock at a marching pace, with singingly clear guitar riffs, haunting organ chords and reverberating drums to make your head bangarang. The singer makes the music with his powerful but distant vocals and halfscreams, launching cryptic lines of discontent at you like a bucket of paint. Lines like “I love you forever” and “no matter what they said, DOLLA is not your friend” instantly endear these guys to listeners.
Make your own judgements on what this band stands for, they seem to contradict themselves all over the place. My interpretation is that these youths from Manchester are feelin’ pretty alive but with no place to live, longing for a world where they could live for free. In their interviews they seem unwilling to express an specific political/social sentiments, but when one watches this video, and listens to the accusatory bellow of singer Ellery James Roberts, you feel the dissatisfaction of a disinherited generation, and the power of youth gone cold. Thankfully, it seems like WU LYF is finally here to stay, and their timing couldn’t be better. Lets hope this band stands up with what their name implies, and causes some serious movement together with all the revolutionary spirits coming out to play around the world.
