- 2025-06-25
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MUSIC
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hard life Premieres New Song “y3llow bike” on BBC Radio 1
British alt-pop band hard life, consisting of Murray Matravers (vocals/keyboard), Oliver Cassidy (drums), Lewis Alexander Berry (guitar) and Jordan Birtles (percussion), premiered a new song “y3llow bike” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is the fourth single off of their upcoming third studio album “onion”, which is set to be released on July 18, 2025.
The track is accompanied by a music video, which was directed by Charlie & Charlie, who filmed in Tokyo, Japan.
It was written by Murray Matravers, and Taka Perry, who also produced the track.
The band frontman Murray Matravers told Jack Saunders about the song, “This song is about fancying a girl riding a yellow bike. Yeah, she was just cycling along in the distance. And I thought, 'Damn,' yellow bikes looking good. It feels so good to be back. Obviously, we took such a long time out for various reasons. So it's nice to be up and running, and I'm gas to have this song out. I've been wanting to drop this song in particular for a very long time.”- The new album comprises 14 tracks, produced by Taka Perry. It is their first album in three years since the 2022 album “Maybe in Another Life...”. Also, it is the first release as hard life. The band changed their name from easy life to hard life due to a copyright dispute with easyGroup in 2024.
Murray Matravers said of the album, “I've always been like, the main writer and creative in the band, and with everything that happened, I suppose like, we were forced into this sort of purgatory where we all had to reevaluate what we were doing. And lots of the guys in the band like, went traveling and found other pursuits. I was the same like, I took myself to Tokyo, and I just had so much to say and so much to that I wanted to get down in this album. And that's kind of why it feels like very Murray centric, because these are my stories, and this is very much my perspective on things. But that's not to say that the guys don't feel like a lot of ownership over this, because as much as it's my story. It's also like our story is a band. So, I don't think anything's really changed. It's just might seem a little bit different from the outside.” - source : BBC Radio 1
