Leicester five-piece Easy Life have released their effortlessly accomplished debut single Pockets.

A seamless combination of hip-hop, funk and jazz, Pockets is inspired equally by the realities of rainy middle England. It’s the first track of Easy Life‘s debut EP, due in early 2018.

Confident and charismatic, much like the band’s colourful put-together image, Easy Life have nailed their mature sound with no less than their first single.

The tune is a self proclaimed “93 BPM head-nodder born out of the need to give a middle finger to those people who don’t believe in simplicity, and are only concerned with material wealth and all other vices that have made modern living that little bit less sweet. It essentially documents that terrible sinking feeling of realising you can’t quite afford to pay this month’s rent due to your own stupidity; an unsettling emotion that is unshakable, too familiar and hangs over us like a dead albatross.”

Easy Life are Murray (vocals), Sam (bass, sax), Lewis (guitar), Olly (drums) and Jordan (synths), who got together while working menial part-time jobs spanning TK Maxx and clinical trials to plucking turkeys or selling potatoes; a lifestyle that contributed to their song writing outlook on the upcoming EP.

Pockets is available on Chess Club Records.