After four years away, Life have returned with ‘The Dollywaggon’, the first single to be taken from upcoming fourth album ‘ABSTRACT / NATURAL’ (out on 19 June, 2026).

Written while frontman Mez Sanders-Green was walking the 193-mile coast-to-coast route (starting in the West Coast, over the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, across the Moors and then to the East Coast), the song is about ‘letting go and moving on – new adventures and beginnings’.

This adventurous spirit shines through the synth-infused soundscape, albeit with some trepidation: ‘I never wanted to leave myself, but I’m leaving now’.

Mez talks about how ‘Mother Earth always wins’ while recalling the sights he saw on his journey – everything from farmers hanging dead miles on chicken wire to phallic mountain. All against an exhilarating backdrop of angular agit-pop guitars that blend Johnny Foreigner’s urgency with Bar Italia cool.