Easy Life Drop New Track "Trust Exercises"

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) easy life have today dropped new track "Trust Exercises", which is available now on Island Records and marks the Leicester five-piece's final release under the easy life name. The group play an instantly-sold-out farewell London show at Koko tonight (October 13th), following a farewell hometown date at Leicester's O2 Academy last night.

Produced alongside FINNEAS and previewed with unexpected poignancy on their headline UK tour earlier this year, "Trust Exercises" is in many ways a full-circle moment for easy life. It is, in fact, one of the trailblazing band's oldest and most cherished songs, inspired by surrounding yourself with good people and treating others with respect. Time-sensitive in release but timeless in musicality, "Trust Exercises" closes one chapter for the Leicester group whilst cementing its reputation as one of this generation's most important (and unstoppable) British bands.

Since 2017's debut single "Pockets", Murray Matravers, Oliver Cassidy, Sam Hewitt, Lewis Berry and Jordan Birtles have built something special. Their ambitious and eclectic catalogue to date scales two albums (both of which charted at number 2 in the UK charts) and more furiously-prolific work from a group of young men unassumingly treading a new path for UK bands around the world. Along the way, Murray has grown in confidence as a producer, songwriter and front-man, delivering an experience always marked by sharp visuals, good humour and lyrical candour. Despite conceiving and releasing albums in the extraordinary circumstances of a global pandemic, the last year or so has seen the band back where they belong; playing to thousands of adoring young fans, from iconic stages like Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage or London's Alexandra Palace to arena shows in their native East Midlands. From the ground up, the band have won a vast global fanbase - and more recently, the vocal support fans, artistic peers, and strangers around the world - with work that is escapist, uplifting, and quintessentially easy life.
From conception to the present day, whatever life has thrown at them, easy life have always moved forward. Read Murray's letter to fans in full on the Top40-Charts, below:

"Lovely people.

I appreciate we've got some explaining to do here - so much has happened in this last 10 days and it's been a whirlwind, please forgive me for not sharing more detail sooner - this all came to a head last night, and having explored literally every possible avenue, we have realised that there are no good options available to us, and we need to change our name to move forward.

Sadly, it seems that justice is only available to those who can afford it. We simply don't have the funds to access a fair trial in the high court. Not to mention the fact that this would likely rattle on through to 2025, and with this hanging over us we wouldn't be able to release any music in the meantime. Our careers, and indeed our lives, would be on hold.

We're not a nameless company; as you've seen, it's our own personal names on the paperwork. This means that should we lose, the costs will be recouped from us personally. They could take everything; material possessions, our livelihoods, our homes.

You can imagine the turmoil this has caused us, but I really hope this helps you understand our situation. We have found solace in the outpourings of love and support, for which we are all grateful for beyond words.

I'm writing this on Tuesday, now in the knowledge that our final day as the 'easy life' you know is probably Friday - fittingly Friday the 13th. We have managed to get some shows together (literally booked last night), and we really hope as many of you as possible will be able to come and join us for the farewell parties.

Even though we aren't able to fight this, we now need to go into a period of legal mediation with Easy Group about what happens next. We're really hoping they might be gracious about this, and we are hopeful for the opportunity to finally put out the song we know you've been wanting for years. Still not as we'd imagined, but it's a song for you guys and we want you to have it.

It's with the deepest sadness that I confirm once again, that we, as easy life, will be playing our final shows this week. Perhaps our case will help provoke a dialogue around legal reform and justice being available to all, however I fear such conversations will fall on deaf ears.

Who knows what will happen next, every storm runs out of rain eventually.

Thanks again for your support,

easy life