Lemonsuckr drop stomping ‘Life Is A Heist’ EP ahead of summer 2026 shows
Lemonsuckr have shared their second EP, ‘Life Is A Heist’, ahead of various live shows for summer 2026.
The new collection from the Brighton electronica/post-punk four-piece follows on from their 2025 debut EP ‘H.E.A.T.’
It features five new tracks – ‘Rugrat’, ‘Stain’, ‘House Of Fire’, ‘Grandaddy’ and ‘Life Is A Heist’ – and finds the band “coming of age”.
On the menacing disco number ‘Stain’, frontman Guy Ferris addresses a fractured and shattered family who “can’t even share the same air“. He explained: “Hopefully, a lot of people can release some tension inside of themselves with that tune.
“The lyrics feel a lot more intrusive into my life and the things that we care about as a group. With the ‘H.E.A.T.’ EP, we were having a little more fun with themes, whereas this one cuts me open a little bit more.”
‘House On Fire’, meanwhile, is a glitchy, electro banger exploring personal connections that go “up in flames“.
“In my love life, I’ve definitely had tumultuous relationships,” said Ferris. “It’s on the nose. It’s about two people being a perfect match but also not so good for each other at the same time.”
‘Grandaddy’ was written by Ferris as “a conversation with my younger self, almost taking the piss out of myself”. The scorching and distorted cut is already a fan-favourite at Lemonsuckr’s live gigs, including a set at last month’s Great Escape Festival.
“The song is a little bit of an identity piece of myself and Oscar [Post] and teenagers,” Ferris shared. “It’s a caricature of myself as a teenage boy.”
Opening track ‘Rugrat’ is a brooding blend of electronica and post-punk that sees Ferris let rip as he examines a difficult childhood memory: “I was five years old on a beach in Poland/ I was nine years old when my life was stolen.”
The slow-burning ‘Life Is A Heist’ title track takes the tempo down, and carries traces of Massive Attack. It rounds off a journey from youth and how it felt to grow up, “cooking up a storm on a street corner, no one alive has a soul’s prayer for you“.
The EP is available as a limited and numbered 12” white vinyl edition with ‘H.E.A.T.’ on the B-side (order here). You can listen via Spotify above, or through your preferred streaming platform here.
Lemonsuckr are due to make numerous festival appearances this summer, including Latitude, 2000Trees, PsychFest and Circuit Break Festival. On July 24, they’ll take to the stage at London’s Electric Ballroom as the main support for former NME Cover stars Chalk.
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