A little less than a year ago, WU LYF returned with their first single in 14 years, ‘A New Life Is Coming’. Today, they’ve formally announced their long-awaited second album: the follow-up to Go Tell Fire to the Mountain is called A Wave That Will Never Break, and it arrives on April 10. The urgently hopeful opener ‘Love Your Fate’ is out today. Check it out below.
“To love one’s fate is to look upon all this — without the fantasy of naïve optimism, nor with the cynicism of bitter despair — but with sober acceptance…” singer Ellery James Roberts shared in a statement. “Freedom is the choice that begins with surrender… So love your fate. Love this time, this ache, this burning world.”
Produced by Sonic Boom, the new album will be released directly through the band’s L Y F community rather than prioritising major streaming platforms. They explained:
With the help of you all we have written, recorded, and produced the long awaited second WU LYF record.
The vision for the L Y F has been with us since the start; way back in 2010 when we first sold the white on white bandana with the Heavy pop / Concrete Gold 12″ – We foresaw a community of like-minds that would gather around the flame of our music, and through whose direct support we could operate with freedom, autonomy & the truth; to play our own (infinite) game – alas we were young, foolish, and didn’t have the means or the infrastructure for the impulse to reach its full potential.
Now 15 years later here we are – the initial version of the L Y F membership platform has been an experimental proof of concept – we have learnt a lot from it over the past year and behind the scenes we have been building Version 2.0.
